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He did NOT run as a pro-choice candidate.

Fred wonders how it all got started:

In the days since Thompson allowed that he was thinking about running for president, his views on abortion have come under scrutiny. Thompson finds the news reports from his first run for Senate perplexing.

“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.”

But, he adds: “I was interviewed and rated pro-life by the National Right to Life folks in 1994, and I had a 100 percent voting record on abortion issues while in the Senate.”

Darla St. Martin, associate executive director of National Right to Life, supports Thompson on those claims. She traveled to Tennessee in 1994 to meet with him. “I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,” she told the American Spectator’s Philip Klein.

- Stephen F. Hayes, The Weekly Standard, From the April 23, 2007 issue

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/528aylls.asp

National Right to Life Committee on Fred Thompson:

“This morning, I cited reports being promoted by the pro-Romney blog Evangelicals for Mitt suggesting that Fred Thompson ran his two campaigns for Senate in Tennessee as a pro-choicer. Not so, National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin just told me.

St. Martin said that she went down to Tennessee in 1994 to speak with Thompson personally when he first ran for Senate, and that she determined he was against abortion.

‘I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,’ St. Martin said. She told me that the group went on to support him in that election, and his record reinforced for her that their determination was correct.

‘He has a consistent voting record that is pro-life,’ she said.

On the NRLC website, they archive their congressional ratings back to 1997, so they include six of his eight years in the Senate. Thompson took the pro-life position on every vote he cast on the abortion issue...”

http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=6017

NRLC says Fred is [still] pro-life:

“With 54% of the vote, pro-life former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander (R) won the seat of retiring PRO-LIFE Senator Fred Thompson.”

http://www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL11/senate.html

It is off putting that a pro-Romney blog (though of a very small membership) would make such a false assertion about Fred.

So you are saying that Fred Thompson was NOT against the Republican Party pro-life plank in 1996 and the guy I quoted is lying?

Just for curiosity's sake, do you know who this quote is from?

I was most encouraged by Senator Thompson’s wording ... he address embryos as unborn children, which they are. Embryo is an age we all went through as alive unborn human beings working toward eventual living in the air world. We live the first ages/stages of our inidivudal life in the water world. Fred refers to embryonic beings as children. Right on! Right on, eventual Mister President!