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Here is your link. You can read the entire interview there if you would like. I suspect you won't because you have already made up your mind.

The problem with Rudy is very simple, Congress will use whatever his position on abortion, guns, gays, and judges to produce some of the worst Draconian legislation possible, especially if the Dims are in control. And you know what? Rudy will most likely sign it as 'good for the nation', something along the lines of his support for gun control in NYC.

We produce Rudy's PUBLIC record on what he has done as a matter of reference. Not just what some other talking head THINKS. That is what you Rudybots do. Produce opinions of others while ignoring the factual basis for our concerns about Rudy or the reality of voting records for Thompson. Rudy is a liberal, don't kid yourself that just because he will be tough on terror, as ALL the GOP candidates are, that it is the only reason we need him. It's not, there are more far-reaching pitfalls if he gets the nomination.

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Or did you deliberately miss Thompson's quotes which I posted yesterday.

I will post them again:

Thompson said he opposes making early-term abortions a crime, as some Republicans would like to do with a constitutional amendment. "But I don't think you should bolt on one issue. I'm still not convinced platforms are a good idea. We know what we believe in and I don't think we need to write it all down in a document," Thompson said. (AP, 8/6/96)

Furthermore, I'm adding this from the American Spectator posted just a few days ago:

In the interview, Thompson was asked: "Some conservatives got flustered by your comments on abortion and Roe vs. Wade. Would you like to explain your position on abortion?"
Thompson answered: "Government should stay out of it. No public financing. The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own."

First-trimester abortion has had constitutional protection since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, and the decision says “the fundamental right of single women and married persons to choose whether to have children is protected by the Ninth Amendment, through the Fourteenth Amendment," reading the right of privacy to now include a woman's unfettered right to have an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy, and even later if it's to save the mother's life. It's relatively easy for Thompson to keep his first trimester pro-choice stance while keeping with the rest of the pro-life vote.

In other words, since first trimester abortion issues weren't ever put to a senate vote, Thompson never had to vote against first trimester abortions because it was always legal under the USC for his entire tenure as a senator .

However, his 1994 comments are valid and there hasn't been any comment from him since then in which he opposes first trimester abortions.

So saying he is pro-life except for favoring first trimester abortions smacks of hypocrisy and quite frankly, dishonesty. I am unaware of any mainstream pro-life position where one is pro-choice during the first trimester and pro-life for the next 6 months of pregnancy.

There is no question Rudy is pro-choice and he has never denied it, and I have never denied it, either. But my post wasn't about Rudy's well known pro-choice stance but rather Thompson's position on the issue. Saying that Roe vs Wade is bad law is giving lip service to the intellectually challenged. The question is, what is he going to do about it? Does he oppose first trimester abortion now? By the way, I spent a quite deal of time looking for any statement from him opposing first trimester abortion and couldn't find it.

Thompson's quote again:

"Government should stay out of it. No public financing. The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own."

And since you are proud of producing public records and public quotes when it comes to Rudy, produce a quote from Thompson in which he unambiguously opposes first trimester abortion. Unless you have this statement, refrain from replying to me with another attempt at spin, because I'm not at all interested.