According to Erick Erickson at RedState...
"But Georgia Right to life is attacking Karen Handel and supporting Nathan Deal. Deal explicitly voted to fund abortions and explicitly voted to fund embryonic stem cell research."
Does Georgia Right to Life Now Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
This group also seem to have supported Huckabee in 2008, including Dean Nelson, from the Politically Active Christians, who is quoted in the above article.
“Alveda King is on the board of Georgia Right to Life.
This group also seem to have supported Huckabee in 2008”
Karen Handel opposes embryonic stem cell research (as does Sarah Palin). John McCain supports it. Ergo, Handel is MORE prolife than McCain. Nevertheless, in January 2008, long before McCain became the GOP nominee, Alveda King issued the following statement about McCain:
“As I look at the current presidential race and the world we are living in, I believe that Republicans need to look for a quality which our country needs most at this critical time: proven leadership. In John McCain, we know that we have a leader who has stood the test of time and can lead America with courage, integrity and strength....
John McCain shares our Christian values. He has a 24-year pro-life voting record. He has fought for judges who will end the activist bent of our federal courts, and get the judiciary back into its proper place in society of interpreting, not legislating, the laws of our land. John McCain believes in the sanctity of marriage, and led the fight in Arizona in 2006 to protect marriage as Almighty God ordained it: between a man and woman.”
http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2008/01/mccain-keeps-christian-endorse.html
So “pro- Embryonic Stem Cell Research” McCain (whose position is otherwise indistinguishable from Handel’s) is prolife, but Handel is not? Something does not add up here.
I think you may be on to something that Georgia Right to Life is a Huck subsidiary. I believe Alveda has been on Huck’s program. She is, like Huck, an ordained minister. She has been to rallies and sat with him. Does she support him?
http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/category/alveda-king/
I really question whether Christian humility should not restrain her from criticizing Sarah Palin on the prolife issue, inasmuch as the Governor has given birth to five children, including a special needs child, and has always eschewed abortion. Palin has walked the walk, not just talked the talk. No one in their right mind would question Palin’s prolife bona fides.