You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.
I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
No one is pro-abortion.
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.
Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.