New Jersey Right to Life endorses Huckabee

New 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."