Posted on 04/06/2008 6:51:19 PM PDT by TitansAFC
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a candid interview with The Washington Times Friday expressed her position on abortion as “mildly pro-choice.”
Asked, “Are you pro-life? Are you pro-choice? What is your thought on abortion?”, Rice responded: “I believe if you go back to 2000, when I helped the president in the campaign, I said that I was, in effect, kind of Libertarian on this issue, and meaning by that that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I'm a strong proponent of parental choice, of parental notification. I'm a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that's where we should be. I've called myself at times mildly pro-choice.
With little prompting Rice continued, “Yeah, mildly pro-choice. That's what that means. I think that there are a lot of things that we can unite around, and that's where I would tend to be. I'm very comfortable with the president's view that we have to respect and need to have a culture that respects life. This should be an issue pretty infrequently because we ought to have a culture that says that, ‘Who wants to have an abortion? Who wants to see a daughter or a friend or, you know, a sibling go through something like that?’ And so I believe the president has been in exactly the right place about this, which is, we have to respect the culture of life and we have to try and bring people to have respect for it and make this as rare a circumstance as possible.”
When told of the belief that in order to be elected a Republican president, a contender must be firmly pro-life, Rice responded, “I'm not trying to be elected.”
Rice was then pushed on abortion, with Washington Times White House correspondent Bill Sammon saying, “But it sounds like you do not wish to change the laws that now allow (abortion)...”
Rice responded, “Well, I don't spend my entire life thinking about these issues. You know, I spend my time really thinking about the foreign policy issues. But you know that I'm a deeply religious person and so, from my point of view, these extremely difficult moral issues where we have -- where we're facing issues with technology and the prolongation of life and the fact that very, very young babies are able to survive now -- very small babies are able to survive -- these are great moral issues.
What I do think is that we should not have the federal government in a position where it is forcing its views on one side or the other. So, for instance, I've tended to agree with those who do not favor federal funding for abortion, because I believe that those who hold a strong moral view on the other side should not be forced to fund it.”
Blah blah blah.
Bet you really don’t even know anything about Condi’s positions.
“if mccain runs on iraq,”
If??? ROFLMAO, IF???? WTF else does he have?
(wipes eyes, LOL, shakes head...”if” INDEED!)
Did you hear what uncle ben said to condi?
You’re a credit to your rice.
Sheesh. Do people here do anything but complain, and find things not to like about Republicans?
Any Republicans?
No one gives a tinkers damn about your prescious Republicans. This forum is not named “FreeRepublicAN.”
Perhaps, considering how things are going.
The forum might temporarily be named “mad about everything and everyone, darn it”.
Just a suggestion.
“Bet you really don’t even know anything about Condi’s positions.”
I know enough that I pray McBoob picks her. That will guarantee that even the Christian Right will let the douche fall flat on his a$$.
Pro-choice, Pro-Palistinian, non-starter.
“The forum might temporarily be named “mad about everything and everyone, darn it”.”
Nope, just mad about Juanito McAmnesty getting the nomination and expecting the loyalty that he never showed us. F’k him and the horse he rode in on.
Her position on abortion is exactly the same as the current twice-elected sitting President. They both favor abortion in the case of rape, incest, and medical necessity.
I follow the Mid East very closely and that includes, the Governments, the armys and our Dpt. of State.
I think Condi is immensely qualified for the VP slot - I disagree with some of her policy stands, abotion is one of them.
I am not a republican either, I am a conserviative.
I belong to the Constitution party.
Like I said:
Blah blah blah.
You know nothing about Condi. Yet, your mind is made up. You’re mad, and you’re happy about that.
Knock yourself out.
Black illegitimacy has skyrocketed.
The turning point came when Pat Moynihan did a study that found that black families were disintegrating, in part as a side effect of the welfare system. He went to Lyndon Johnson with it, but LBJ decided he would rather exploit this problem than fix it. If blacks could be kept poor and dysfunctional, and permanently on welfare, then they could be counted on to vote Democrat.
LBJ proved to be right. And the leftist establishment in politics, the schools, and the entertainment industry have been exploiting blacks ever since.
Of course, blacks also have let it be done to them, following the Hip Hop/rap image Hollywood has given them, following the poverty pimps like Al Sharpton, and apparently crowding into churches like Rev. Wright’s in Chicago, where they are filled with dysfunctional hatreds and the habit of blaming all their problems on someone else.
I don’t think it’s a racial thing, it’s a cultural thing. And as Dick Gregory says, unless they learn to be responsible and pull up their own socks, it’s not going to get any better.
It’s a sad business.
“You know nothing about Condi.”
Like I said, I know enough. If that is not understandable then perhaps you ought to have someone else read it to you.
Her position on abortion is exactly the same as the current twice-elected sitting President. They both favor abortion in the case of rape, incest, and medical necessity. Is the President also a "fan of killing babies"?
Well, I guess I’m you know, in a way sort of opposed to government involvement in things like keeping people from blowing your head off on the street or in the subway or your living room. I mean, isn’t that really between a person and his own professional hit-man or -woman? Who are we to say what is or isn’t right? I think if we just you know, got rid of all the laws, the crime rate would drop to near zero in no time.
That was part of the original intention, going back to Margaret Sanger and Company.
“Her position on abortion is exactly the same as the current twice-elected sitting President. They both favor abortion in the case of rape, incest, and medical necessity.”
Source that please.
Chris Crocker, is that you?
Thank you for your support of America.
NOT
Why oh why do we give computer keyboards to conservative fools?)
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