New Jersey's Primary Election Date has been changed to February 5, 2008 to make our state more competitive in the selection of the Presidential nominees for President. Before you vote, please take the time to learn where the candidates stand on the issue of LIFE.
POLLS ARE OPEN FROM 6 A.M. TO 8 P.M.
--Updated January 31, 2008
New Jersey Right to Life PAC Endorses Mike Huckabee for President
Both the 2008 Democratic Candidates for President, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are Pro-Abortion. John Edwards is no longer in the race.
2008 Republican Presidential Candidates' Positions on Life Issues
(Listed Alphabetically)
(No longer in the race) RUDOLPH GIULIANI — "I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights," Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion. "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing," he responded. (CNN.com, Inside Politics, Dec. 2, 1999) Now that he is running for president he says he would support the PBA ban, but only if it has a life-of-the-mother exception, (Hannity and Colmes, 2/5/07) even though there is clear evidence that killing a baby during delivery by stabbing him in the back of the neck and sucking out his brains is never medically necessary.
In a 1989 conversation with Phil Donahue, Giuliani said he would "uphold a woman's right of choice," "fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others can exercise," and "oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal." When Donahue asked him what advice he would give his daughter if she became pregnant, he said . . . "if the ultimate choice of the woman — my daughter or any other woman — would be that in this particular circumstance she had to have an abortion, I'd support that. I'd give my daughter the money for it."
**MIKE HUCKABEE — 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. 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.
JOHN McCAIN — Sen. McCain has voted to restrict or regulate the practice of abortion and, although he says Roe v. Wade should be overturned and returned to the states, he justifies abortion for babies conceived through rape or incest and has endorsed legislation that would expand federal funding for research that kills human embryos. He voted for the ban on partial-birth abortion.
RON PAUL — Rep. Paul is a physician who has practiced medicine for over 40 years, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He is the author of legislation that seeks to define life as beginning at conception (H.R. 1094). He is also the prime sponsor of H.R. 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v. Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. Congressman Paul has also authored H.R. 1095, which prevents federal funds to be used for so-called "population control." He opposes using taxpayer funding for both embryonic and non-embryonic stem cell research.
Ron Paul was the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and his 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. (LIFENEWS.com)
MITT ROMNEY — Mitt Romney ran against Ted Kennedy for the U.S. Senate in 1994 as a pro-choice candidate. 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." Now that he is running for President, Mr. Romney has done an "about face" and, after 35 years of legal abortion in this country and a political career as an enthusiastic pro-choicer, he has just seen the light and is now "pro-life."
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.
**100% Pro-Life
Source: RNC for Life PAC, Fall 2007 - No. 65
www.rncforlife.org
