[JCEccles]

Thompson: 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.

A masterpiece of doubletalk and misdirection.

He certainly doesn't openly dispute the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade. He seems to be in favor of allowing some state discretion in the matter. Beyond that, it's impossible to determine exactly what his position is.

FRedheads, your plain-spoken southerner seems to be speaking with a forked tongue.

[Politicalmom]

From the April Chris Wallace interview: "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."

[SuziQ]

He certainly doesn't openly dispute the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade.

He has clearly stated that he believes Roe V Wade was a BAD legal decision, and wants to see it overturned.

[kidd]

He certainly doesn't openly dispute the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade. He seems to be in favor of allowing some state discretion in the matter.

I'm not a Fredhead (yet), but if Roe v Wade is overturned then abortion BECOMES a state matter. Overturning Roe v Wade will not make abortion illegal...it will make it a state matter rather than a federal matter.

Divide and conquer.

[Atlas Sneezed]

He certainly doesn’t openly dispute the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade.

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I guess you haven’t heard him say at every opportunity: “It’s bad medicine, and bad law.”