Those quotations don’t directly contradict Senator Thompson’s past statements that he opposes laws prohibiting abortions. He says he’s personally pro-life, and he points to his “pro-life” votes in the Senate, and he says the federal government shouldn’t be interfering with the states on the issue, but I can’t find an explicit statement that he’d actually favor state laws prohibiting abortions. It always seems like he’s playing word games:
http://issues2000.org/2008/Fred_Thompson_Abortion.htm
Yeah, right. I'm sure that it is his pussy footing around the issue that earned him a 100% pro life voting record in the Senate and the endorsement of the National Right to Life organization as well as an impressive number of state right-to-life organizations backing him and more coming on. You are deliberately obfuscating and are no stranger to "word games" yourself.
>>Those quotations don’t directly contradict Senator Thompson’s past statements that he opposes laws prohibiting abortions.<<
I believe that they do contradict his earlier apparently pro-choice statements more that 10 years ago, but you and I agree that Thompson does not believe that a human life amendment will pass, and we agree that something needs to be done about Roe v. Wade and even worse judicial rulings, such as Doe v. Bolton, following Roe.
Since I have not heard and relevant Huckabee quotes on this, I will repeat my question to you:
What penalties for a woman who has an abortion has Huckabee advocated? You think that Huckabee would “prohibit abortions,” but I am not sure how that would work.