Sun wrote: “What he is saying is that people ought to be free to kill the unborn. What was he thinking?”
That’s not it. He said he prefers to go back to the pre-Roe v Wade days. He clearly wants abortion greatly restricted or eliminated at the state level, but he doesn’t want to give embryos the same constitutional rights as persons because of what that entails. His approach is both moral and pragmatic, because 2/3 of the house and senate and 3/4 of the states will never pass an amendment that makes ALL abortions illegal and gives the same rights to a newly conceived embryo as a person.
Fred says: “I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with. “
As I posted before, this is what troubles me the most. The innocent preborn baby is not free to make that decision.
We are their voices, and they need our protection.
And I am not impressed with pre-Roe v Wade days. In my own state, we had legal abortion BEFORE Roe.
Taking an innocent life is against God’s law, and against the Constitution.