A...He changed his position, as many do.
B...He was Pro Choice, and his choice was Life.
C...He voted Pro Life, each and every time.
D...Yup, that's the guy! LOL
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U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson says he seldom hears about abortion in campaign travels throughout Tennessee and hopes the issue is downplayed at the Republican National Convention. The Tennessee Republican, a pro-choice defender in a party with an anti-abortion tilt, is preparing for next week's convention in San Diego. He said the party must avoid distracting issues and focus on electing Bob Dole as president. "We need to concentrate on what brings us together and not what divides us," Thompson said in an interview with The Tennessean published Tuesday. Thompson said he opposes making early-term abortions a crime, as some Republicans would like to do with a constitutional amendment. "But I don't think you should bolt on one issue. I'm still not convinced platforms are a good idea. We know what we believe in and I don't think we need to write it all down in a document," Thompson said. (AP, 8/6/96)
Luis Gonzalez wrote: "AP, 8/6/96"
Curiously, when you do a google search on that text you quoted, it shows up at several websites - including the so-called "EvangelicalsForMitt.com" - but it doesn't show up with any link to the Associated Press. And we all should know by now how Evangelicals for Mitt has a little false witness problem...
Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
Thompson on the issue with Chris Wallace on FOX NEWS Sunday:
So let's do a lightning round — quick questions, quick answers, a variety of issues — to see where Fred Thompson stands.
THOMPSON: Um hmm.
WALLACE: Abortion.
THOMPSON: Pro-life.
WALLACE: Would you like to overturn Roe. ...
THOMPSON: You said lightning round, now. If you want ...
WALLACE: Well, let's go.
THOMPSON: ... more, give me another question. I'll work through it.
WALLACE: Do you want to overturn Roe vs. Wade?
THOMPSON: I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges. I don't think the court ought to wake up one day and make new social policy for the country. It's contrary to what it's been the past 200 years.
We have a process in this country to do that. Judges shouldn't be doing that. That's what happened in that case. I think it was wrong.
Hey Luis, you better
(a) double check the accuracy of the source
(b) realize that it is the AP (cornerstone of the MSM) and therefore makes (a) moot
It has been shown through his record that this is (a)not true and (b)false history
The following post on FR provides a different take on Fred's views on abortion, implying he has been pro-life since 1994. In fact the National Right to Life group endorsed him when he first ran for the Senate. Surely as the lastest polls show, Fred is cutting into Mitt's support, and perhaps Giuliani's. It is only natural that Mitt's supporters would respond. I do not doubt Mitt's conversion to the pro-life cause. After all, Geo. H. W. Bush was pro-choice, changed his position and never waivered from it while he was Vice-President and President. Such may be the case with Fred & Mitt as well.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1805399/posts