Posted on 11/04/2007 1:38:41 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
Fred Thompson told Tim Russert on NBCs Meet the Press Sunday that he DOES NOT support a Human Life amendment. That position is part of the GOP platform. Heres what the 2004 GOP platform says:
"We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions." Heres what Thompson said about it lifted from todays Meet The Press transcript:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask you about an issue very important in your partys primary process, and thats abortion.
MR. THOMPSON: Mm-hmm.
MR. RUSSERT: This is the 2004 Republican Party platform, and here it is: We say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendments protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions. Could you run as a candidate on that platform, promising a human life amendment banning all abortions?
MR. THOMPSON: No.
MR. RUSSERT: You would not?
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I answered the question that was asked.
How do YOU propose to stop it?
“You have no idea if Fred would or would not pay the bill for his daughter to have an abortion, do you?”
Fred never said that he would, Rudy did.
No, Flip Flip Mitt is the fraud, Fred is the real deal and stands consistently on principle every time. Mitt is a disaster, a Phlegm Phlagm man of the worst order, constantly flipping like pancakes at a Kiwanis breakfast....yuck city man!
ok it’s getting really ugly now...
Sad to say, but Roe v. Wade will never be overturned.....sad fact.....
Liar.
OOOH...
Excellent Hyperbole
I don’t care WHAT Rudy says. The judges he appointed and supported in NYC are a hell of a lot more like Ginsburg than Scalia.
Wasting my time I tell you.Give me the meat GOP or is that all you have to serve.
He made one or two phone calls.
Intellectual dishonesty doesn’t go very far, JC.
I believe you are correct. The 14th has already been applied to illegal aliens (they are not citizens, but they are people), which is why you cannot deny them public schools, etc. If the SCOTUS ruled the 14th applied to the unborn, then abortion would be banned completely.
Don’t hold your breath. Although it is probably likelier than getting a Pro-Life amendment approved by the states...
Take a look at #280 if you want an eye-popper.
You must spend a lot of time in the confessional spreading myths like that.
There are several Trudy Rooters and all they seem to be able to do is attack the conservative candidates since they sure as hell cannot make the conservative case for that cross-dressing little femme.
Fred wasn't asked. You said he wouldn't, but you really don't know. This is intellectually dishonest on your part.
JCEccles is a fatuous liar.
That depends on how you define life. How do you demonstrate a fetus is ‘alive’?
I probably would prefer Hunter - but by the time Arizona gets to vote, it will probably be a mute point.
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