Posted on 08/18/2015 7:39:24 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is surging on a wave of support from socially conservative voters inspired by his passionate talk about faith and his attacks on Planned Parenthood. But while Carson insists he’s a fierce opponent of abortion, he also defends a long series of actions on the issue that are sharply at odds with the beliefs of the very voters fueling his rise.
Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, has referred women to doctors who perform abortions, was a trustee of a foundation that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood, and his campaign struggles to articulate which legal restrictions he supports on the procedure.
Carson’s history on the issue is shaped by his medical background: Decisions he made decades ago — about referring women carrying fetuses with genetic defects to doctors willing to perform abortions, and conducting research using fetal tissue — came in the context of making complex medical decisions. But those are calls the candidate, who is running as ardently anti-abortion, stands by today, positions he argues are not out of step with being personally pro-life. And they are positions his communications director defended in an interview using language favored by advocates for abortion rights.
“He believes in quality medical care, No. 1, and secondly, he believes in people making their own decisions based on facts and information,” said Carson communications director Doug Watts, when asked whether Carson stands by his previous decisions to refer women whose fetuses had genetic defects to doctors who provide abortions. He does, Watts said.
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Doctors don’t always get to decide how they do referrals. Sometimes the company does it for them.
This is a strained argument.
Our 31 year old son is disabled and lives with us. What some would call a defect, we see as an opportunity for God to be glorified.
Being pro RU-486 makes you pro-abortion. Pro-abortion on genetic birth defects makes you pro-abortion. Me thinks we have another weasel, like the rest.
Here is the weasel
“Decisions he made decades ago — about referring women carrying fetuses with genetic defects to doctors willing to perform abortions”
Decades ago, he referred women to doctors who MIGHT perform an abortion.
Here’s what it doesn’t say:
Decisions he made decades ago — telling women carrying fetuses with genetic defects to get an abortion.
He referred pregnant women to an OB/GYN. That’s not unusual.
The local abortionist delivered my daughter. That doesn’t make me pro-choice.
I am noticing a pattern of leftists media articles looking for any and every little mote in order to disqualify every potential conservative candidate, while they’re not saying much of anything at all about the ‘rat candidates. They do that in every election of course, but this time it seems to be the agreed-upon tactic, and the only one. They really, really don’t want to talk about their candidates. A far cry from all their boosterism of Obozo almost 8 years ago.
Indeed
A strained argument presented by the leftist “Politico,” that some will nevertheless glom onto gleefully.
Abortion is NEVER indicated for medical reasons.
Carson is pro-abortion. It’s as simple as that.
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