WASHINGTON (EWTN News)—As the race for the Republican presidential nomination continues, several candidates confirmed their opposition to abortion and criticized the current administration for failing to defend the unborn.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addressed a crowd of more than 1,000 people at the Dec. 14 premiere of The Gift of Life documentary.
The group affirmed their pro-life views at the Des Moines forum hosted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee just weeks before the Iowa Caucus kicks off the presidential nomination process.
During her remarks, Bachmann criticized the Food and Drug Administration’s recent proposal to provide the Plan B “morning-after pill” to preteen girls without a prescription or parental consent, a suggestion that was rejected by the Department of Health and Human Services.
She called the drug an abortifacient and denounced the attempt to place it in grocery stores “where little girls could find it next to bubble gum and next to M&Ms.”
In his speech, Gingrich vowed that as president he would defund Planned Parenthood and restore conscience protections to prevent medical employees from being forced to perform abortions if they morally object to doing so.
He also said that he would issue an executive order reinstating the Mexico City Policy that prohibits American taxpayer money from being used to fund abortions overseas.
Perry pointed to his pro-life record as governor of Texas, claiming that his recent work to remove funding from Planned Parenthood in the state has already led 12 abortion facilities to close.
Santorum also weighed in, arguing that the idea of life beginning at conception is not a personal belief but a “scientific fact.”
He stressed the need for America to “get the moral issues right” in order to solve other economic and political problems.
Candidate Mitt Romney did not attend the event but defended his pro-life views during the Dec. 15 Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa.
The former Massachusetts governor was questioned about his conversion from “pro-abortion” to “pro-life.”
He acknowledged that he had formerly supported abortion, but said that he changed his mind after questions regarding embryonic stem-cell research led him to rethink his position on life.
Romney said that his concerns led him to veto a bill that would have “created new embryos for the purpose of destroying them.” He said that he has had a strong and consistent pro-life record ever since.
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Let us pray that every Bishop and every pastor make clear what constitutes the “non-negotiable” basics in 2012
NO on Abortion
NO on Euthanasia
NO on Homosexual “Marriage”
Every Catholic will be able to judge the courage or cowardice of their individual Bishop and their individual pastor this year.
Do they have a “Gandalf” at the bridge willing to battle with the forces of intrinsic evil or ....
Do they have a “worm-tongue”; pushing go along and get along while marriage and the schools burn
I plead to my fellow pro-life Catholics not to vote for Ron Paul. He would not defend our families from suicidal murderers who rule Iran and want to develop nuclear weapons to use, not to deter attack. The other pro-life candidates, unlike Paul, are fit to serve as Commander in Chief, while at the same time they promise to do what they can to protect the unborn. Please prayerfully consider voting for any one of these fine candidates. Thanks for reading my plea.
the bible supported abortion, that was done by a priest, in god’s name, in his holly temple!
the 1984 niv footnote of numbers 5:11-31 explained what “to thy thigh to rot, thy belly to swell” meant:
Numbers 5:21 Or causes you to have a miscarrying womb and barrenness” to CAUSE a miscarrying womb IS an abortion.
this is the law:
ABORTION IS A CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SUPPORTED BY THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY, THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF 14TH AMENDMENT, AND THE 13TH AMENDMENT.
no human has a right to life or any due process rights by the 14th amendment to use another human’s body or body parts AGAINST their will, civil and constitutional rights: that’s why you are not force to donate your kidney—-the human fetus is no exception; this is protected by the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment.
ALL THE REPUBLICANS ARE PRO-LIFE, SCHIZOPHRENIC FASCISTS WHO SUPPORTS REPRODUCTIVE SLAVERY OF AMERICAN FEMALE CITIZENS, WHICH IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY THE 13TH AMENDMENT.
Rick Santorum is given credit for being the author to the present federal
Partial birth abortion ban” law.
A question hangs over the text (not the title) of the ban: “If a fetus knew
and understood the text would he/she feel safe from abortion?” the sad answer
is NO.
What say ye?
@Gale: If Roe is as settled as you make it out to be, how come more than enough lawyers on both sides are busily preparing briefs for and against it should the day come when it’s finally going to be truly settled by the Supreme Court when the ultimate case reaches its doorstep and receives the mandatory write of certeriori (sp?)?
I do agree that the GOP has been taken over by radicalized ideologues who talk the “prolife” talking points talk, but when it comes to demonstrating the fullest committment they can towards protecting and upholding the dignity of every human being, born and yet to be born, young, old, strong and frail ... the GOP/Tea Party dominated 112th House of Representatives has flopped. They’ve emaciated funding for child and elderly nutrition programs, and so forth. And they’ve had to gall to say what they’ve done was to cut so much money to reduce the deficit and give business the signal to go forth and multiply jobs. Sure, right.
Dog n’ poney bloviation sessions about cutting Planned Parenthood’s funding didn’t lead to the creation of a single job. Not one. But it gave the right wingers plenty of grist for their talking points crankerupper boyos toiling in the back rooms of all those prestigious think tanks we now have to deal with no thanks to Lewis Powell, no friend of the unborn when he was on the Bench. Before he was nominated by Nixon to the bench, he wrote the infamous “Powell Memo,” which became THE Blueprint for the rise of the right wing.
Don’t count on any controversial decision having staying power. Southern segregationists and pro-slavers can attest to this, and thank God they were proven wrong. I respectfully acknowledge where we disagree on Roe, but I’m going to say I hope the Court will prove Roe to be as wrong as history itself will, if not already has, proven Roe to be one of the most destructive decisions ever to have been rendered.
What should shock you most, is how deeply involved the GOP was prior to Roe with its support of legalized abortion, and not for the reasons you’ve given. Nope: Ever the party of code words to disguise their truly racist-economic abstract thinking that if x number of millions of poor, dependent on welfare, minorities were allowed to abort their children, what a drop there’d be in the welfare rolls, and of course, income and corporate not to mention local municipal and property taxes, etc. That last sentence was chock full of CODE and I deliberately worded it in such manner.
YOu’d be more effect in simply saying the GOP cannot nor should ever be trusted with any element of our social safety net. It doesn’t believe in it and it’s doing everything in its power to manipulate the public opinion against it, even if it has to give the impression it cares for women’s rights in any area. That’s rubbish for the party has and will always be the party of the well-heeled WASPs, and monied Catholic WASP-wannabes.
And to think this reporter is saying this crop of GOP “candidates” (LOL) are proving their prolife bona fides. Give us a break!
I know where you’re coming from, but in order to be more effective, simply go after their real records and separate that information from their rhetoric. Could there have been anything more pathetically hilarious than to have watched the same shedders of croccodile tears on behehalf of their kids and grandkids concerning the deficit (only to justify their next act of voting to gut safety net programs)...while at the same time voting to give themselves and their caste ilk more tax breaks as if they needed them to begin with.
The Republican rhetoric machine never matches its prolife talk. It never has and never will. The party’s bosses will make darn sure of it.
Gale- glad you posted here. You will have many pray for your hard heart.
Dear Lord Jesus,
I ask that you cover Gale in Your most sacred and precious blood to cleanse her from all forces of evil, heal her, and bring her to Your light. Jesus, I trust in You.
Y’know, when the conservatives get-a-praying, it becomes more difficult by the day, moment and prayer to tell which is harder, discerning their sincerity or the hardness of their own hearts.
Sigh, what else can we expect nowadays from folks who, advertently or not—-I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and pray for their inadvertency—-as opposed to believing they’ve truly embraced the let’s love the fetus and let the poor kids, their (single mothers) and poor married parents and the old folks living off social security and desperately needing governmentally provided nutritional and health care assistance to get by from one day to the next sans fears of becoming a financial burden on their own adult children tending to their children and grandchildren.
My, isn’t this a simple world so easily solved by simple prayers for simple solutions. Only in the political fantasy world notions of so many people who’ve been sold the simplistic notions poured forth from the rightist think tanks and especially their talking point dispensing pals on Fox & Friends, (among other “political celebrity” talking heads on that “news” channel.
Or as a certain blonde, named Gretchen, on Fox & Friends, is wont to mutter, “Some people say,”—I’ll help poor Gretch out with a more accurately finishing conclusion—ya better watch out for who’s prayin’ for you and what they’re really praying for and WHY.
The republicans are archetypical hubris filled hypocrites and will say anything to keep their corporatist masters in power… they have been done nothing since 1973 to overturn Roe vs. Wade except talk the predictable and transparent smack of liars and thieves… it appears that the republican political elite and their slave masters make too much money off the abortion industry to give the matter much more than a feigned effort for public consumption… at least the murderers, nihilists, living emoticons, and queers of the democratic party are honest about their blood lust and hatred of all that is holy and good… welcome to the new paradigm of totalitarianism and tribal dictatorship of a depraved and godless oligarchy.
Steven,
We pro-lifers are not as ignorant as you’d like us to be. I was in a crisis pregnancy, no education, no job, etc. Don’t tell women they can’t do it…they can! I have a single mom and her 2 children living in my small one bathroom home right now in addition to my family of 6, so if you think that the love stops after a baby is born, you’re wrong. We have hope, that’s the difference. And, I am praying for you too. Ha!
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