[Rhodes22-list] Herb's rant.

[Herb Parsons]

Why are you asking me? I haven't voted for McCain for anything. However, 
I believe he's antiabortion. Have you seen anything that indicates 
otherwise?

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Your misrepresentation of his stand sucks Stan, and is unbecoming to  
> "intelligent debate". You can do better.
>  
> Herb, speaking of being able to do better.............just where the hell  
> does McCain stand? After reading as much as I could find, I'm still  confused.
>  
> Rummy 
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> Misperceptions About McCain's Abortion Stance
> by _Julie  Rovner_ 
> (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101102)  (NPR) 
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> Many Republican voters, however, seem to believe, incorrectly, that the  
> current Republican front-runner, Arizona Sen. John McCain, supports abortion  
> rights, too.  
> The misperception is interesting, considering that McCain has not attempted  
> to keep his pro-life views a secret. Here's how he put it on an appearance 
> last  year on NBC's Meet the Press: 
> "I have stated time after time after time that Roe v Wade was a bad  
> decision, that I support a woman — the rights of the unborn — that I have fought  for 
> human rights and human dignity throughout my entire political career,"  
> McCain said. "To me, it's an issue of human rights and human dignity." 
> And while now former candidate Fred Thompson, the former senator from  
> Tennessee, won the coveted endorsement from the National Right to Life  Committee, 
> McCain's voting record on the issue is just fine, says David O'Steen,  the 
> group's executive director. 
> "He's been very consistent; he hasn't changed his position," O'Steen says. He 
>  says that his group has supported McCain in every one of his senate races.  
> "We've always considered him pro-life," he says. 
> Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, says her group has  
> always considered McCain pro-life as well. And it's not just abortion, she says.  
> "He voted against family planning, he voted against the freedom of access to  
> clinic entrances — that was about violence against women in clinics," Keenan  
> says, adding, "He voted against funding for teen pregnancy-prevention 
> programs,  and making sure that abstinence only was medically accurate. This is very, 
> very  extreme." 
> Yet in Florida's GOP primary on Jan. 29, McCain won 45 percent of Republican  
> voters who said abortion should be legal. That's nearly twice the total of  
> former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who used to be pro-choice, but now says  
> he has changed his mind. And Giuliani, who says he still is pro-choice, 
> received  just 19 percent of those pro-choice voters. 
> NARAL's Keenan thinks it's because voters see McCain splitting with  
> Republicans on so many other issues, they assume he must split with them when it  
> comes to abortion as well. 
> "I think it comes back to that moderate maverick image that he's tried to  
> portray," Keenan says. "But when you peel the onion back, the record shows that  
> this is a guy who's been very anti-choice since he entered the U.S. House of  
> Representatives back in 1983." 
> Those pro-choice McCain voters may also remember the very public feud McCain  
> has had with the National Right to Life Committee. But that argument wasn't 
> over  abortion, says the NRLC's O'Steen; it was over the campaign finance 
> measure that  McCain sponsored with Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat. 
> "The McCain-Feingold Act limited the ability of non-PACS [political action  
> committees] to even mention the name of a candidate within 30 days of a 
> primary,  or 60 days of a general election," O'Steen says. 
> In other words, the dispute was a freedom of speech issue.  
> McCain's pro-life record isn't totally spotless: He did vote in favor of  
> expanding federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. But both pro-choice  
> and pro-life groups say that if McCain becomes the Republican nominee, they'll  
> work hard to make sure voters know what his abortion position really  is.
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