From the same source:
Paul scores 0% by NARAL on pro-choice voting record
For over thirty years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has been the political arm of the pro-choice movement and a strong advocate of reproductive freedom and choice. NARAL Pro-Choice America’s mission is to protect and preserve the right to choose while promoting policies and programs that improve women’s health and make abortion less necessary. NARAL Pro-Choice America works to educate Americans and officeholders about reproductive rights and health issues and elect pro-choice candidates at all levels of government. The NARAL ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization’s preferred position.
Voting Record:
Rep. Paul has an anti-choice record. He received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America's Congressional Record on Choice.
2006: | 65 percent |
2005: | 75 percent |
2004: | 65 percent |
2003: | 0 percent |
2002: | 20 percent |
2001: | 35 percent |
Click here for all of Rep. Paul's scores from 1997-2006.
Public Statements about Choice:
A selection of Rep. Paul's public statements on this issue is below.
"Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, but not because the Supreme Court presumed to legalize abortion rather than ban it. Roe was wrongly decided because abortion is simply not a constitutional issue ."
[Ron Paul, Federalizing Social Policy, Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk A Weekly Column, January 30, 2006, http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst013006.htm (accessed May 9, 2007).]