Not "most". All.
Did he offer any legislation himself to counter the horror of abortion? Not that I have seen.
He did not. He has admitted that prior to the birth of his children with Jeri that he was not a pro-life activist. Also, his eight years in the Senate were mostly focused on government reform and accountability.
Does he think Roe v. Wade should be overturned? Apparently not because he keeps trying to suggest each state should decide
This is a woefully uninformed comment. Do you know what will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned? The issue will return to the states, exactly as was true prior to Roe v. Wade, and that matches Thompson's position exactly.
“This is a woefully uninformed comment.”
Woefully uninformed?
Any proabortion legislation is a violation of not only God’s laws, but US laws as well.
As you read, bear in mind that person was used interchangeably with human being until Blackmun said the court would “ignore the well-known facts of fetal development” in Roe v. Wade in 1973. Also keep in mind that capital punishment was legal.
The Declaration of Independence opens by stating the fundamental guiding principles of the new fledgling country:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are CREATED equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness...”
“...nor shall any peron...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...”(Amendment V of the US Constitution)
This was binding on the federal government, so no federal government representative had the power to promote or authorize abortion. The unborn are undeniably human beings who are denied their due process and their right to life.
The fourteenth Amendment,ratified in 1868, incorporated due process and the right to life so that now no state representative could lawfully deny the right to life or due process rights to any innocent human being.
Justice Blackmun’s opinion, in Roe v. Wade was a direct violation of both God’s laws and US law.
The right to life of innocent human beings is not a states’ rights issue.
Defending human life is not a federalist issue. It is the business of all of humanity.
He did not. He has admitted that prior to the birth of his children with Jeri that he was not a pro-life activist. Also, his eight years in the Senate were mostly focused on government reform and accountability.
Interesting fact to ponder: he first married at 17 and his first son was born 7 months later, back before Roe v. Wade was enacted. Surely his life must have contained many moments of reflection. He and his child bride wife stuck it out for more than 30 years until all the children were well grown before they parted ways; and he did not marry again until several years after his divorce. His ex-wife has gone on record in support of his candidacy. When his oldest daughter passed away in her 30s, he stepped down from the Senate and took time to mourn.
Therefore, this is a decent family man who has lived out his respect for family and life. He did not go into the Senate to be a "one-issue" crusader on abortion and get himself typecast and pushed aside like Santorum; hence he lived to fight another day.
As President he would have much more influence over the abortion question than he would have had fighting a losing battle when he was a Senator, first under Clinton and later under an embattled first-term Bush presidency and polarized Senate. Yet people here want to reject him as a 95% good-enough candidate because he is not, in their eyes, 100%.
The lessons of the last election cycle do not seem to have sunk in. This is politics, and in America, it involves compromise. People who will never compromise in order to make incremental improvements are extremists who end up losing.