Before You Jump on the Fred Thompson Band Wagon….

…you must read this from RNC for Life:

WHERE IS FRED THOMPSON ON THE RIGHT TO LIFE?
The answer is, we don’t know. What we do know is the following:

• “On abortion, both Thompson and Cooper (Thompson’s Democrat opponent in the 1994 U.S. Senate race) are pro-choice. But Thompson favors parental notification, Cooper voted against it.” (National Review, 6/27/94)
• Although Thompson says he’s pro-choice, his voting record on abortion issues (which includes opposing Henry Foster’s nomination for surgeon general) has earned him high marks from both the Christian Coalition and the National Right to Life Committee. He has also won the backing of the tobacco industry and the NRA. (Washington Monthly, 12/1/96)

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National Right to Life Committee’s voting records for the 105th, 106th and 107th sessions of Congress show that, on the votes NRLC scored, he voted to restrict or regulate the practice of abortion every time. He did not earn a 100% rating from NRLC because he voted for the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform measure. (http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/home/)

But, voting to restrict or regulate abortion does not necessarily mean he believes that every innocent human life is entitled to protection under the law from conception until natural death. We do not know where Fred Thompson stands on the right to life of the human embryo. Nor do we know whether he justifies abortion for babies conceived through rape or incest.

Before pro-lifers jump on the Fred Thompson band wagon, and it appears that some are doing so without performing their due diligence, they and we need the answers to these questions. The fine pro-life candidates who are already in the race for the 2008 Republican nomination-Senator Sam Brownback, Congressman Duncan Hunter, Congressman Tom Tancredo, and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee-should expect no less of pro-life Republican primary voters.