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Originally Posted by BV
Sorry, yes it does, however what I meant to emphasize is that he believes it's not the federal governments or president's duty to make laws on this. So yes he personally may be against it but that doesn't matter.
here is the next quote from the page that you did not include in your reply to my post:
“The first thing we have to do is get the federal government out of it. We don’t need a federal abortion police. That’s the last thing that we need. There has to be a criminal penalty for the person that’s committing that crime. And I think that is the abortionist. As for the punishment, I don’t think that should be up to the president to decide.”
this is the beauty of ron's philosophy that i like the most, even though his personal beliefs may be different than yours, mine, or joe the plumber's, he realizes that it's not the federal governments job to decide. :-)
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That response is to a question he was asked about what he thought should happen if abortion were made illegal and a woman still got one. So his thought is that in that case the person providing the abortion should be punished. That doesn't change anything. It still means he thinks that abortion should be outlawed.
He might believe that individual states should have the right to legalize or not legalize abortion, but that doesn't change the fact that he is against it. Personally I think passing this off as a states rights issue is horseshit. There are somethings I agree states should be allowed to decide for themselves but in matters of health and medical issues there should be federal laws so that every American citizen can have the same rights as every other citizen.