Posted on 12/20/2004 2:26:56 PM PST by Ed Current
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- First, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire from pro-life advocates for backing a $6 billion measure using taxpayer funds to destroy human life in cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Now he drawing criticism for suggesting the GOP should become more pro-abortion.
In an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily newspaper published Saturday, Schwarzenegger said the Republican Party should move "a little to the left" on issues such as abortion -- a shift he claims would pick up more voters.
Schwarzenegger told the paper that "the Republican Party currently covers only the spectrum from the right wing to the middle."
"I would like the Republican Party to cross this line, move a little further left and place more weight on the center," he said. "This would immediately give the party 5 percent more votes without its losing anything elsewhere."
However, post-election poll of voters shows that a majority of Americans are pro-life and the abortion issue gave pro-life candidates such as President Bush a twelve percent advantage.
Thinking about their own position on abortion, 55 percent said they took a pro-life position and only 40 percent took one of three positions in favor of legal abortions.
That November 2004 Wirthlin poll conforms to others showing pro-life Republican presidential candidates benefiting from that view on abortion.
According to Lydia Saad, Senior Gallup Poll Editor, "national exit polling in every presidential election since 1984 has shown a net advantage to the pro-life side over the pro-choice side, based on the percentage of single-issue abortion voters in the electorate."
Schwarzenegger's comments drew opposition from Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute, a California group involved in pro-life issues.
"Schwarzenegger's statements that the GOP would not lose its base if it embraces ... abortion rights show extreme arrogance and total ignorance concerning the values and dedication of the party's core constituents," England said.
"Schwarzenegger has spent too much time in Hollywood. He needs to start mingling more with mainstream Californians," she added.
"We are outraged that Schwarzenegger has the audacity to misspeak for the millions of Republicans in this country who believe that abortion is murder," England concluded.
You must be a SLOW learner.
Check my signup date, newbie.
POST #61
Giving up values for votes? No thanks.
Maybe you can tell me what that has to do with women abstaining until they are ready to have babies? And maybe you can turn the hostility down a notch.
I think Ahnold should learn to shut his streudel hole or head back to Berchtesgaden.
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Yeah the Innocent Baby Terminator.
Gives me warm fuzzies all over knowing that Arnold Schwarzenkennedy will never be the President of the United States!
"Schwarzenegger has spent too much time in Hollywood. He needs to start mingling more with mainstream Californians," she added.
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Mr. Schwarzenegger has a long way to go before I will consider him to be a conservative.
"Schwarzenkennedy"... HAHAahahah...
Mr. Schwarzenegger has a long way to go before I will consider him to be sane.
You provided the response to this: Losing values and morality is a devil's deal.
"They can be more lenient to the pregnant woman but nail the provider for second degree murder of a child with life in jail or death penalty."
Why? If it is wrong it is wrong. The doctor is only carrying out the wishes of the mother. If the mother was able to abort the unborn child on her own why should she be any less responsible? That being the case, the next question come to how we would enforce such a law? This is where I have some issues.
"Just making it illegal and NOT trumpeting it like it was some glorious right of all free woman would be a start."
Completely agree that it should not be trumpted like it is. I think society should make it a (nearly) unacceptable choice. However, I don't like the idea of the government getting involved too much since as I said before enforcement would lead to a nightmare since it is really quite easy for a woman to abort an unborn child on her own without any outside assistance.
Schwartzenegger has always stealth lib hiding behind the (R).
Schwartzenegger has always stealth lib hiding behind the (R).
They are helpless victims of celebrity worship:
This should give a clear picture of the topic:
http://abortionno.org/Resources/pictures_2.html
Thank you! for restating the position the Catholic Church has held for more than 2000 years.
RHL Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
If this "glob of cells" continued its growth unhindered, please let us know just what in the hell would pop out in nine months. A human being or a labrador retreiver?
Is a lit match "fire", or does it only count when it has engulfed the house?
"... but most of us do not believe that a 10-day old glob of cells is human."
Does "most of us" include Democrats and other assorted liberals?
"Most of us" conservatives see a developing human being in that "10-day old glob of cells".
Nothing personal to you either, but please save the loaded, canned rhetoric for somewhere else. Most of us here, are quite "pro" in all areas, including "choice" when you are using it in an honest context.
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