With all due respect, no, that's not what "we" wind up with--I haven't read the quote you're talking about. And two quotes doesn't a record make.
Need I quote Ronald Reagan's support of abortion while he was governor of California?
Of course not. Selective quotation would be dishonest, and wouldn't show the whole story.
“Need I quote Ronald Reagan's support of abortion while he was governor of California?”
Ah, the ultimate lie of Republican pro-abort apologists.
The legislation that Mr. Reagan signed did, indeed, liberalize abortion law in California:
- Prior to the law, abortions were banned in California;
- The law permitted abortion in cases of rape, incest, and the life and severe health of the mother, PROVIDED that the application for abortion was approved by a panel of physicians in the HOSPITAL at which she would have the abortion.
Of course, the panels of doctors became sham rubber stamps for any and all abortions, and the “health” of the mother was also stretched beyond recognition. But that was not what was intended by the legislation.
In fact, Mr. Reagan's “pro-abortion” legislation looks an awful like what most PRO-LIFERS today would prefer for the basic parameters of abortion law.
Even so, Mr. Reagan regretted the law within a year of signing it, and became quite loud and forceful in his opposition to legal abortion.
With none of this “in my personal view” stuff.
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