Actually, he says he is “produly” pro-life, though he waffled on whether Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Regarding Roe V. Wade, in the 2006 Maryland Senate debate He also said:
“My desire is that we follow what stare decisis is at this point.” (Did he think the debate was a Supreme Court confirmation hearing?)
On the other hand he has come out strongly against embryonic stem cell reseach and said he consider the embroyos to be human lives.
That is a strange combination.
I get the feeling he is really pro-life but he was trying to win a Senate seat in an a very Liberal state, but I don’t like the pandering.
He is clearly, strongly pro-Affirmative action. What particularly bothers me is that he basically says that AA has worked in colleges, but is needed more in the corporate world.
I am not for AA in either setting, but if anything, workplace AA is far more offensive and damaging than educational AA.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Michael_Steele_Civil_Rights.htm
“I get the feeling he is really pro-life but he was trying to win a Senate seat in an a very Liberal state, but I don’t like the pandering.”
I’m from Maryland. That’s exactly the case. He’s a real conservative and during the Senate election he tried to make the point in uber liberal Maryland, that there is nothing he can do as a US Senator to overturn RW.
He’s always been Pro Life. I prefer Gingrich myself, but Gingrich apparently took himself out of it.