Posted on 07/26/2011 9:07:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The big question in the Republican presidential race is whether or not Texas Gov. Rick Perry will throw his name in the hat for the GOP nomination to face pro-abortion president Barack Obama. If he does, Texas pro-life groups give him high marks.
“Governor Rick Perry has always championed the pro-life cause, tirelessly advocating for the sanctity of innocent human life in numerous ways,” Texas Right to Life executive director Elizabeth Graham tells LifeNews.com.
Governor Perry has worked alongside Texas Right to Life, helping shepherd our pro-life bills and eagerly supporting our measures,” Graham said. “As governor of Texas, he has intervened to stop anti-life legislation on a number of occasions, and he has helped clear obstacles when necessary.”
For the pro-life movement, changing the makeup of the Supreme Court is perhaps the number one issue — as the current pro-abortion majority on the high court makes it impossible to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow for either federal or state efforts to provide legal protection for women and unborn children. Graham says her organization has been appreciative of the nominations Perry has made as governor.
“Every one of Governor Perry’s judicial appointees adheres to a strict constructionist style of jurisprudence; neither do they find a right to privacy in the penumbra of the Constitution, nor do they legislate from the bench,” Graham assures. “Governor Perry’s appointments have created the largest, most conservative judicial body in America.”
Joe Pojman, the head of Texas Alliance for Life, has also worked closely with the governor and confirms to LifeNews that “Perry has always been pro-life throughout his time has an elected official.”
“For many years, Perry has supported the fund raising efforts of pro-life organizations, including Texas Alliance for Life, and he has appeared several times at the Texas Rally for Life held at the state Capitol to commemorate the tragic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision,” Pojman added.”We believe Perry has the right stuff to be president. If elected, he will aggressively defend innocent human life as he has as governor of Texas.”
Pojman pointed to a laundry list of achievements Perry can point to as governor that have advanced the pro-life cause. Most recently, he signed into law a bill that would revoke taxpayer funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business. But going back to the beginning, as the Lt. Governor in 1999, Perry oversaw the passage by the Texas Senate of the Parental Notification Act, the most substantial pro-life law passed in Texas up to that point. In 2005, Gov. Perry signed the parental consent measure to increase parents’ rights and, in the years since the parental notification and consent laws have been in effect, abortions on minor girls have dropped by 32% per year.
In 2003, Perry signed the Prenatal Protection Act, a law that protects unborn children from violent crimes of murder and assault by expanding the definition of human life in Texas criminal and civil law to include unborn children “at every stage of gestation from fertilization to birth.” Texas’ highest criminal court has upheld convictions of criminals for the murder of unborn children several times, and several are serving life sentences.
In 2005, Perry signed a measure prohibiting abortions in the third trimester and, in 2003, Perry signed the Woman’s Right to Know Act in 2003, which required that abortion businesses offer state-created informational brochures to women considering abortion. That law also prohibits late abortions from being performed excepted in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.
This year, Perry appeared to step up his push for pro-life laws even more and, in response to requests from the two Texas pro-life groups, made passing an ultrasound law among his top priorities.
“The bill he signed raises the standard of care for informed consent for abortion, for the first time, to the level of other surgical and medical procedures. It mandates a sonogram and gives women the right to see the image of the unborn child and hear the heartbeat. The bill also requires the physician who will perform the abortion to meet with the woman for an in-person consultation session 24 hours before the abortion to describe the procedure, its risks, and the alternatives,” Pojman said. “Abby Johnson, the former director of a Texas Planned Parenthood abortion facility turned pro-life advocate, believes that provision will “devastate” the abortion industry.”
Perry, this year, also signed a bill to create a “Choose Life” license plate to promote infant adoption as an alternative to abortion in the Lone Star State. Perry long promoted compassionate alternatives to abortion. Since 2005, Perry has signed budgets that include millions for pregnancy resource centers and other pro-life agencies that assist pregnant women.
Perry has also funded adult, not embryonic, stem cell research and treatments since 2005, and has spoken out against embryonic stem cell research.
The long record of pro-life accomplishments will serve the Texas governor well should he decide to seek the Republican nomination. He would face of against other candidates who are equally committed to pro-life values, but his pro-life track record will give him a chance to gain positive support from voters in places like Iowa and South Carolina. Should he ultimately become the nominee, Perry, like other Republicans seeking the nomination, would present a clear pro-life versus pro-abortion contrast with Obama that would rally the majority of Americans who are pro-life to his side.
Perry is the best way to beat Romney. Where ever Perry gets listed, Romney falls back.
After the August debates, Perry will have close to 80% Name Recognition. We will also see him in more daily headlines, which will probably compare his Texas record for jobs, economy, industry etc,,. There is nothing but good in all these areas and America will respond accordingly.
(There will also be a heavy diet of Crow for several failed Demagogues around here, who failed to take him down.)
There, you see? I can project too!
I thought so.
=^D
Sarah Palin gives him a thumbs up also.
**Let me say one more thing about my friend and your governor: he knows all human life is precious. Rick Perry believes in protecting the most vulnerable in society, and who is more vulnerable than an unborn child? Our value as human beings in the eyes of Our Creator is not diminished by any circumstance.
Not every child is born into ideal circumstances, but every life is sacred. Rick Perry knows this – it is at the core of his being.**
http://www.rickperry.org/palin-letter
Calling him an atheist is ignorant and defies what those know him say about his strong Christian beliefs.
Where do you get off making idiotic comments like this?
Big government socialist? In 2008 before the recession kicked in, Texas not only balanced its budget but ran an $11 billion surplus.
You're making things up that aren't true.
It's worth noting Ronald Reagan voted for FDR, too.
Gore was the conservative Democratic option at the time and Perry was a conservative Democrat.
People in change in 23 years.
You are the pilot of a large aircraft that is falling out of the sky as it approaches a city. You have enough control to either stay with the aircraft and steer it towards a less populated neighborhood killing a dozen people or bail out and have the aircraft crash into an NFL stadium killing tens of thousands of people but saving yourself.
Your position is that of the coward that would bail out of the aircraft and allow it to hit the stadium, killing tens of thousands, so that you can sanctimoniously brag that you did not intentionally choose to kill anybody.
Only 15% of all voters agree with the "no exception for rape or incest" position which means that such a position automatically dooms any proposed abortion law to certain failure in any State Legislature and thus will never save a single life.
Your position only dooms the tens thousands of lives that CAN be saved by the abortion laws that Texas now has.
You do, however, get to brag on the street corner about how "pro-life" you are.
Perry: Loses bragging rights, is not able to save all lives but saves tens of thousands of lives.
Jacknhoo: Dooms tens of thousands of lives, never saves a single life, but retains bragging rights.
If you desire to participate in apostasy, as Perry does, that is your choice. God gave you free will, for you to make right or wrong choices.
If you believe voting to keep killing legal, that is your own cross to bear...your choice and not mine.
Create your own imaginary scenario so that you can insinuate you have some sort of valid argument but, in truth, you show just how fallacious your thinking is.
Way to go!
Boy, Al Gore and Rudi Julie-annie and Perry have a lot in common.
Rick Perry: The Democrat Years
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/rick-perry-democrat-years/
Excerpt:
Perry’s support of the $5.7 billion tax hike in 1987, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Clements but opposed by most of the GOP members. The bill passed by a relatively close 78-70 in the Texas House. Even without adjusting for inflation, the legislation triggered the largest tax increase ever passed in modern Texas, according to Dale Craymer, president of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association. Today, taking inflation into account, it would be worth more than $11 billion.
Rick Perry must be gaining a lot of traction.
That was 24 years ago and some actually change in 24 years.
Reagan once voted for FDR and didn't become a Republican until 1962.
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