New Jersey Right to Life endorses Huckabee
By EditorNew Jersey Right to Life has endorsed Mike Huckabee for the GOP presidential nomination, saying that the former Governor of Arkansas supports passage of a constitutional amendment to protect the right to life, and believes that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.
“As Governor, he supported and signed legislation banning partial-birth abortion, requiring parental consent before abortion on a minor, requiring informed consent for the mother prior to an abortion, and other laws regulating or restricting the practice of abortion,” NJRTL said in a statement posted on their website. “He would eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions. He supports "A Woman's Right to Know" legislation. He opposes human embryonic stem cell research.”
"While there have been endless debates about who is the real conservative in this race, it is clear from his consistent position and now from this important validation from New Jersey Right to Life that Gov. Mike Huckabee is the only true moral leader,” said Peter Kane, Huckabee’s New Jersey campaign chairman.
NJRTL says that Ron Paul’s “libertarian views conflicted at times with his pro-life stance. For instance, from 2005-2006, Paul had just a 56 percent pro-life voting record as he voted four times against a federal law protecting teenagers from being taken to other states for secret abortions in violation of the parental notification or consent laws of their home state.”
Mitt Romney ran against Ted Kennedy for the U.S. Senate in 1994 as a pro-choice candidate, NJRTL noted, and that as a candidate for Governor in 2002, “he answered Planned Parenthood and NARAL questionnaires saying he supported ‘the substance of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade and, ‘I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose...women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's’ “
“While he opposes the creation of human embryos for research purposes, Romney supports killing human embryos left over from IVF treatments for research purposes as long as the parents give their consent,” NJRTL said.
John McCain, NJRTL says, "justifies abortion for babies conceived through rape or incest and has endorsed legislation that would expand federal funding for research that kills human embryos."
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This is a shocker, rightwingers of the right endorse rightwinger of the right. Impressive. Why is this really news? NJ Right to Life (I have seen these people handing out balloons to children that read "Would you murder this child"-talk about hyperbole) is virtually influenceless outside of their own ranks. McCain will win here. Perhaps the only good thing that a McCain presidency could bring is if his election brings the rightwing of the rightwingers out f the dark ages and into the moderate world of tolerance. This is not o imply that pro-lifers are intolerant and that pro-life is not a moderate position. Personally, i am pro-life. I would never council any woman into having an abortion. However, I firmly believe that that choice is absolutley non of my business. Of course I sitll believe that Hillary CLinton will be our next President.
Paul - Pro-family and pro-freedom ALL the way around
First and foremost, Ron Paul is the candidate with THE best PROVEN voting record that is pro-freedom, pro-family (a corollary of the first), AND pro-life. Regarding the third, Ron Paul's belief is that the unborn are innocents that must be protected. He has among other things SPONSORED a bill that would take away the federal government's ability to interfere with the state's efforts to protect life. In this late hour of the campaign, I've not read the bills referenced, but I believe that the reason Ron Paul didn't vote for them was likely one that the usual pro-lifer (and the usual citizen) would support.
One possible reason is that Dr. Paul (OB/GYN) will in general vote AGAINST federal intrusions of power (which in general, are unconstitutional).
Additionally, if Ron Paul sees something that is not pro-FREEDOM, stuffed in an otherwise acceptable "pro-life" bill, then he can't vote for it. If the standard in Washington and AMERICA is to only critically examine a bill until we find something we LIKE, and then vote for it, then things will never change. Politics 101 - BAD things can be hidden in nicely-named bills.
Dr. Paul has the proper approach - the devil's in the details, and the way to stop the Washington behemoth's erosion on freedom is to vote based on ALL the details, so that we no longer accept unconstitutional and un-American incursions on our rights, no matter how seemingly small or unrelated to the bill's name.
No one else in the race blends all the important aspects of being pro-FREEDOM. The Washington mindset is one of perception and blather rather than determined vigilance. Dr. Paul's ability to resist that mindset is not hypothetical - he's proved it for 30 years. Anyone who thinks he is not as Pro-life as one can get while not ignoring pro-Freedom issues needs to study up on his stands, which he openly publishes because he openly believes and consistently ACTS upon them.
NO WAY
I am pro-life. In fact, I am a dues-paying supporter of New Jersey Right to Life. That said, I would NEVER vote for the Huckster. He is my LAST choice for president.
Hey SJRED
Over my COLD DEAD A_ _!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee to think if your parents decided that:
YOU NOT BE HERE......
Not A Surprise
NJRTL has always been a bit more hardline on life issues than National Right To Life Committee which takes a more pragmatic approach and backed Fred Thompson last fall in the hopes that he could win.
Huckabee is a bit closer to 100% pro-life than Romney and McCain because of his tougher stand against embronic stem cell research. But I hope recent advances in non-embronic stem cell research will make that issue moot. I could never support Huckabee because of his stands on other issues - and I think he has no shot at ever winning the nomination, let alone a general election.
sj-red...good one, max
A well reasoned, well articulated comment from a tolerant (guessing here) christian. First you call sjblue, "sjred" - red as in communist, red as in blood, or red as in republican? just wondering, but it doesn't lose any of its trenchant zing no matter how you interpret it.
Follow that up with classic dogma right out of the rtl playbook and there you have it - our comment of the day.
Guess you plan to sit out the election if it's Clinton vs McCain?
That'll show us.
rtl has indeed marginalized itself, as have extreme leftwingers. max, ann coulter, michael moore and his ilk, can all cry in their beer on election day, while the rest of us act like grownups.
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