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July 12, 2007

Not an Actual Pro-Life Republican

by AltHippo @ 4:19 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

But he plays one on television:

“You need to separate a lawyer who is advocating a position from the position itself.” Hmm. Then: “They will probably come at me, in 35 years of law practice, with some people, I represented criminal defendants. I was a prosecutor. I had a general practice. So that in and of itself doesn’t mean anything anyway.”

If ever an answer demanded a follow-up, this fit the bill. As both former Watergate counsel Thompson and news crusader Hannity know, Thompson’s “you need to separate a lawyer who is advocating a position from the position itself” indicates that something is going on that needs a little more exploration.

Hannity, however, must have missed that. Instead, before ending the interview, he allowed Thompson to declare; “I’m not going to get down in the weeds with everything they dredge up over the next six months. In terms of being a target, all I can say is, they know who to be afraid of.”

So, Thompson denies being a lobbyist for a pro-choice group. Except for the part where he actually denies anything.

While I was searching for NRO’s condemnation of Thompson as a secular humanizing pro-abortion Hollywood-type, I ran across this from He Whose Voice Makes My Teeth Hurt:

Maybe Thompson meant merely to say that he would not support a law that put women seeking abortion in jail. But if he doesn’t think that abortion should be generally prohibited, which his comment could also reasonably be interpreted to mean, then he shouldn’t say that he’s pro-life. He can say that he is a great ally of pro-lifers and that he would be with them on every practical issue that is before him. But if he doesn’t believe that state governments should prohibit abortion generally, then he’s not pro-life.

That’s what these folks mean by Pro-Life. Seeking an abortion means that you should get thrown in jail. And, if you believe in anything less than this, you’re not Pro-Life.

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One Response to “Not an Actual Pro-Life Republican”

  1. Jamelle Says:
    July 13th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    I must say though, I do admire the consistency of those “pro-lifers” that demand that women be thrown in jail. At the very least, they recognize the implications of equating abortion with murder.

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