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Flippers, Floppers & Frauds vs. Duncan Hunter – Part 1

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Fred Thompson

*Fred Thompson Senate Archives Show Pro-Life,
Pro-Abortion Position Papers Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)

—Likely Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is making his first trip to Iowa today in what could be a precursor to announcing an official candidacy. However, the Thompson camp is confronting a new report showing two sets of position papers on abortion in his Senate archives.

ABC News combed through the archives of papers Thompson made available to the University of Tennessee after representing the state in the U.S. Senate.

It found two one-page papers from 1996 discussing Thompson’s abortion position that appear to paint the senator in the best light when his record is described to either side of the abortion debate.

The pro-life version includes a presentation of Thompson’s pro-life voting record and details seven votes against taxpayer-funded abortions and one supporting the ban on partial-birth abortions.

The pro-abortion version contains nearly identical language, but omits the list of pro-life votes and the language concerning his “pro-life voting record.” -LifeNews, August 18, 2007

* Thompson said he supports the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. – Interview, Memphis Commercial Appeal, July 1993.

* “The Supreme Court has attempted to delineate the constitutionally appropriate roles for individual and governmental decision-making on the issue of abortion. Beyond that, I believe that the federal government should not interfere with individual convictions and actions in this area”. – Fred Thompson, 1996 Tennesseans for Choice Questionnaire.

* “I have read these accounts and tried to think back 13 years ago as to what may have given rise to them. Although I don’t remember it, I must have said something to someone as I was getting my campaign started that led to a story. Apparently, another story was based upon that story, and then another was based upon that, concluding I was pro-choice.” – Fred Thompson to the Weekly Standard, 2007.

* Mr. Thompson, who has formed a “testing the waters” committee and is likely to make an official announcement of his candidacy soon, has long taken a federalist approach to abortion, saying that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and that states should decide the issue for themselves. He opposes a constitutional amendment banning abortion, his spokesman, Mark Corallo, said yesterday. – June 2007, NY Sun

* Voted YES on a Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997) – On the Issues, Fred Thompson

*Bill Number: S J Res 21
Issue: Congressional Affairs
Date: 04/23/1996
Sponsor: Sen Thompson, Fred [TN]

Official Title of Legislation: S J Res 21: A joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to limit congressional terms.

* “I am unabashedly pro-life”. – Fred Thompson, August 2007, Iowa

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