Is this the worst thing the Clintons vaunted oppo machine can dig up against Fred Thompson? Pathetic.
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Quick Reference
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Posted on 07/18/2007 9:10:22 PM PDT by Josh Painter
According to records from Arent Fox, the law firm based in Washington where Mr. Thompson worked part-time from 1991 to 1994, he charged the organization, the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, about $5,000 for work he did in 1991 and 1992. The records show that Mr. Thompson, a probable Republican candidate for president in 2008, spent much of that time in telephone conferences with the president of the group, and on three occasions he reported lobbying administration officials on its behalf...
From the time he was elected to the Senate from Tennessee in 1994 until he left office in early 2003, Mr. Thompson voted for every abortion restriction measure as well as a ban on government financed abortion for Defense Department personnel. He has also said that he opposes the Roe v. Wade decision because it establishes a federal right to abortion, an issue that he says should be left to the states...
The billing records from Arent Fox show that Mr. Thompson, who charged about $250 an hour, spoke 22 times with Judith DeSarno, who was then president of the family planning group. In addition, he lobbied “administration officials” for a total of 3.3 hours, the records show...
In a column published on the conservative blog Powerline, Mr. Thompson wrote that in light of lawyer-client confidentiality, it would not be appropriate for him to respond to those who are “dredging up clients — or another lawyer’s clients — that I may have represented or consulted with” 15 or 20 years ago...
He continued, “In almost 30 years of practicing law I must have had hundreds of clients and thousands of conversations about legal matters. Like any good lawyer, I would always try to give my best, objective, and professional opinion on any legal question presented to me.”
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Blow it out your bum, Slimes.
There are people on FR who will eat this up though....
I was about to say "let's look at Hillary's billing records and see what that turns up". But then I remembered the last time someone suggested that a "suicide" followed.
"The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) is a non-profit membership organization based in Washington, D.C. that has served as an important source of advocacy, education and training for the family planning and reproductive health care field for more than 35 years. NFPRHA's mission is to assure access to voluntary, confidential, comprehensive, culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health care services and to support reproductive freedom for all. NFPRHA represents providers of care: public, private, domestic and international as well as researchers, educators, consumers and advocates. NFPRHA members provide reproductive health care services at nearly 4,500 clinics to more than 4 million women annually.
Many NFPRHA members receive funding under Title X of the Public Health Services Act, a critical component of the nation's public health infrastructure that is the only federally-funded, dedicated family planning program to provide reproductive health care to low income and uninsured women. Title X clinics are at the forefront of efforts to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and breast and cervical cancers, and their impact has been enormous. Last year alone, Title X services enabled women to avoid one million unintended pregnancies, nearly half of which would have ended in abortion. The Title X system is the entry point into the health care system for millions of American women.
Mission Statement
The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRH), founded in 1971, is a non-profit membership organization established to assure access to voluntary, comprehensive and culturally sensitive family planning and reproductive health care services and to support reproductive freedom for all. "
Even if Fred did some lobbying for them, it may have had nothing to do with abortion. The above indicates other services.
When is the Slimes going to start having hissie fits about Hillary’s clients? She had some doozies in her days at the Rose law firm.
NFP is supported by the Catholic church. It couldn’t be farther away from abortion.
He may have been a consulting partner for the case, another lawyer may have asked him to do some work on the case.
The NY Times is *so* busted. The NFP helps women *avoid* abortions.
They teach Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education.
He may have been a consulting partner for the case, another lawyer may have asked him to do some work on the case.
Thanks.
Go to Captain’s quarters—19 hours over 14 months, only three of which did not involve “consulations” probably with those in the firm who were doing the work.Pheh
Sounds like he was just about the least expensive lawyer in DC back then!
And he got 5 grand?!
And the ban stayed?
LOL!! Fred sure screwed those libs!
ACCORDING TO THE NFPRHA WEBSITE FRED THOMPSON VOTED AGAINST THEM EVERY YEAR HE WAS IN THE SENATE!
+ = NFPRHA supports - = No support
1995-2003
Tennessee Senators 1
Bill Frist (R-TN) -
Fred Thompson (R-TN) -
Isn't it amazing how the media can get out their microscopes, protractors, compasses and thinking caps to probe the most insignificant aspect of a republicans' past? Yet determining whether Bill Clinton committed a violent rape (to take just one example) is so beyond them they do not even begin the task.
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