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Consistent Pro-Life Record
Newt Gingrich has consistently upheld a pro-life standard. He had a consistent pro-life voting record throughout his twenty years in Congress, including his four years as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Gingrich pledges to uphold this consistent pro-life standard as president.
Gingrich’s consistent pro-life standard is reflected by the following:
1. 98.6% Lifetime Pro-Life Rating from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). For the 20 years that Gingrich served in Congress (1979-1999), Gingrich supported the pro-life position in 70 out of 71 votes. (In the one instance that he did not take the NRLC position, it was because the NRLC opposed an early 1995 version of welfare reform because it changed certain welfare payments for mothers with children; NRLC did not oppose the final version of Gingrich’s welfare reform passed in 1996)
2. Supported the Hyde Amendment. Gingrich consistently voted for the Hyde amendment and other bans on government funding of abortions.
3. Partial Birth Abortion Ban. During Gingrich’s tenure as Speaker, the House of Representatives twice passed legislation banning partial birth abortions. President Clinton vetoed this legislation both times. Finally, a partial birth abortion ban was signed into law in 2003. The legislative effort to ban partial birth abortions had a very positive impact increasing pro-life support in the United States.
4. Signed the Susan B. Anthony List Pro-Life Leadership Presidential Pledge. In June 2011, Gingrich signed the SBA List Pro-Life Leadership Presidential pledge in which Gingrich pledges to the American people that if elected President he will (i) only nominate judges to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary who are committed to restraint and applying the original meaning of the Constitution, and not legislating from the bench (ii) select pro-life appointees for relevant executive branch positions, (iii) advance pro-life legislation to permanently end all taxpayer funding of abortion in all domestic and international spending programs, (iv) defund Planned Parenthood; and (v) advance and sign into law a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.
5. Pledges to Sign Two Pro-life Executive Orders on the first day of a Gingrich Administration.
i. “Mexico City Policy” of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the “Mexico City Policy”— to stop the federal funding of any non-governmental agencies or charities that perform or promote abortions in foreign countries.
ii. Respect the Beliefs and Integrity of Healthcare Workers. No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any action or procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable. This protection should include, but not be limited to, abortion and sterilization procedures. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
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Second Amendment
Newt has been long recognized as a strong defender of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. Newt is a recipient of the National Rifle Association’s Defender of the Second Amendment Award. His legislative voting record was consistently scored by the NRA as either an A or A+ all 20 years that he served in Congress. Furthermore, Newt is the only candidate in the GOP race who has spoken out about the threat to the second amendment from the United Nations and other global governance organizations, and on the first day, he will instruct the Department of Justice and State Department to defend American sovereignty and block all international treaties that infringe on Second Amendment rights.
Defending Second Amendment Rights
The right to bear arms is a political right designed to safeguard freedom so that no government can take away from you the rights which God has given you.
– Newt Gingrich, NRA’s Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum
We live in a time when international organizations and our own federal government are devoting significant efforts to eliminate the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. We must forcefully echo the Declaration of Independence and insist that the first duty of government is to provide for our safety. At the core of this is the Constitutional right of the people to provide for their own safety.
THE GINGRICH RECORD DEFENDING SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS:
* Newt has been a committed and vigilant defender of Second Amendment rights since first being elected by the people of Georgia’s Sixth District in 1978.
* Newt is a Life Member of the National Rifle Association, and speaks regularly at the NRA’s Annual Meeting. He received an A or A-plus rating from the NRA all ten terms that he served in the House of Representatives, and received the NRA’s Defender of the Second Amendment award in 2010.
WHAT NEWT WILL DO ON DAY ONE:
* Instruct the Department of Justice and State Department to defend American sovereignty and block all international treaties that infringe on Second Amendment rights.
* Take immediate steps to decisively control the border so Mexican drug cartels are blocked from entering the United States.
* End all illegal gun exports to Mexico by the federal government.
* End the discriminatory treatment of firearms imports. If a gun can be legally made and sold in the United States, it should be importable from outside the United States.
View Newt’s responses to the Gun Owners of America survey here.
http://www.newt.org/sites/newt.org/files/images/GOASurveyPDF.pdf
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Dede Scozzafava Endorsement
Newt has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election.
Whether it was helping to build the Republican Party of Georgia back when Democrats controlled the entire state or leading the nationwide effort in 1994 to break 40 years of Democratic rule in the House, Newt has always tried to advance the cause of a truly conservative Republican party. This has always meant supporting the most conservative nominee possible as selected by Republican primary voters.
Therefore, Newt will almost always back the nominee of the Republican party and not back an independent candidate in a race against a Democratic candidate.
Newt still believes in this principle, however, he has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election. Although she was the Republican nominee, the problem was that Republican primary voters did not pick her, the local party leaders did, otherwise her liberal views would have prevented her from becoming the nominee. The Conservative Party candidate whom Scozzafava was running against, Doug Hoffman, recently remarked about Newt’s endorsement of his rival, “I would advise other conservative republicans: Don’t hold this against him.”
Are you done with your campaign spam yet? “MISTAKE”...the theme for Newt’s campaign.
After working for Nelson Rockefeller (Southern Regional Director of the Nelson Rockefeller Presidential campaign in 1968, pro-abortion & supported big-government, socialist programs), Newt lost in 1974 and 1976 running as a progressive republican.
Newt wasn’t a “conservative” until 1978, but it didn’t take long for Newt to resort back to his progressive ways.
1979:
Gingrich votes FOR a massive federal land grab. Millions of acres in Alaska are transferred to Washington bureaucrats.
Gingrich votes FOR raising the debt ceiling.
Gingrich votes FOR establishing the Federal Department of Education.
1980’s:
In the 1980’s Gingrich voted, numerous times, to raise the debt ceiling.
In 1987, Gingrich co-sponsors H.R. 1934, to implement the infamous & unconstitutional “Fairness Doctrine”.
In 1988, Gingrich wanted Republicans to move away from Reaganism.
In 1989, Gingrich co-sponsors the Global Warming Prevention Act.
1990’s:
In 1993, Gingrich preached NAFTA and whipped Republicans into supporting it.
In 1994, Gingrich supported the GATT Treaty, surrendering sovereignty to the U.N.
4th January, 1995 Newly sworn in Speaker Gingrich speaks positively of FDR and his socialist New Deal.
10th April, 1995 Gingrich supports federal funding of abortion.
18th April, 1996 Gingrich voted for restrictions on laser sighting devices.
16th September, 1996 Gingrich voted for the Lautenberg Gun Ban.
28th September, 1996 Gingrich voted for the “Gun Free School Zones Act”, making schools easier targets.
Gingrich earned a “D” rating from the Gun Owners of America in 1996.
21st January, 1997 A Republican congress fined Gingrich a record $300,000 for ethics violations.
26th June, 1998 Gingrich supports foreign aid and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
5th November, 1998 Gingrich resigns.
Life after Congress:
12th October, 2005 - Gingrich calls for the DNA testing of all US citizens.
15th February, 2007 - He supported George W. Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
April, 2007 - He calls for restrictions on 2nd amendment rights.
10th April, 2007 - In a event with John Kerry, Newt agreed with Kerry’s views on the environment, praised his book, and almost hugged him.
24th April, 2007 - He said about Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs): “conservatives should embrace [them] and want to extend as widely as possible.”
November, 2007 - Gingrich’s book ‘A Contract with the Earth’ is published, in which he touts his ‘green’ credentials.
April, 2008 - Newt accepts Al Gore’s invitation to make a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi, for Gore’s organization. Newt calls Gore a “friend”.
29th September, 2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
16th October, 2009 - Gingrich endorses big-government, pro-abortion NY-23 candidate Dede Scozzafava.
15th November, 2010 - He defended Romneycare.
12th December, 2010 - He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
25th January, 2011 - Gingrich renews his support for ethanol subsidies.
25th January, 2011 - Gingrich says he will re-brand, not abolish, the EPA.
7th March, 2011 - Gingrich blames his infidelity on patriotism.
14th March, 2011 - Gingrich says NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico
18th March, 2011 - Gingrich renews support for indebted prescription drug program.
23rd March, 2011 - Gingrich completes a flip-flop on Libyan military intervention.
15th May, 2011 - He calls Paul Ryan’s budget plan “right-wing social engineering” and renews support for the individual mandate.
And the myth of Newt’s “Conservatism” continues....