Red State betrays Allen's lack of principles on abortion

By: Rob
Published On: 7/20/2006 11:00:00 AM

The folks over at Red State have been kind enough to lay out how unprincipled Allen has been on Roe v. Wade.
George Allen entered the Virginia Governorship as "pro-choice in the first trimester and opposed to overturning Roe vs. Wade."

As recently as his 2000 Senatorial campaign, Allen has expressed his opinion that "...a woman should be allowed to have an abortion only until the point in pregnancy when there is a medical evidence of a heartbeat and brain activity." In a Project Vote Smart survey, Allen again reaffirmed that "abortion should be illegal when the fetus is viable, with or without life support" and "[abortion should be legal]...when pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, when the life of the woman is endangered, and gross fetal abnormality." Some Pro-Life advocates have noted that "the point in pregnancy when there is medical evidence of a heartbeat and brain actility" accounts for 98% of all abortions.

Since entering the Senate, Allen has assembled a strongly Pro-Life voting record (as his rating of 0 by NARAL attests to). He has voted for the Partial Birth Abortion ban as well as "Yes" on criminal penalties for harming a fetus during the commision of a crime.

Come 2008, Senator Allen will have a minimum of a six-year Pro-Life voting record to deflect his past views.

Perhaps banking hard right in little more than 5 years is a good plan to appeal to the right-wing partisans for his presidential run, but it's not the best way to represent pro-choice Virginia.

Allen's lack of principles on abortion has been chronicled here before - will the Virginia media do it's job and ask Felix some tough questions about this issue?

Comments



Love Red State (Mimi Schaeffer - 7/20/2006 11:22:24 AM)
Gotta love Red State; they can be counted to slam Allen; and best of all, somehow they're near the top of the google list on news about Allen.)


How Pro-Lifers Caused an Abortion (Bubby - 7/20/2006 12:23:21 PM)
Sounds crazy huh. Anti-abortionists actually caused an abortion to happen.  You might call it an unintended outcome.  I call it the natural result of legislating morality. This first-person story details why Choice should be every woman's right. Period.

[notice this is a WaPo article, from the Outlook section, 6/4/06 - registration required]

What  Happens When There Is No Plan B?



Great article, thanks! n/t (phriendlyjaime - 7/20/2006 12:35:18 PM)


Yeah, sounds crazy because it didn't happen (I.Publius - 7/21/2006 11:40:27 AM)
The abortion was simply delayed.  Whether by a pill or by a doctor a couple weeks later, it's the same thing.

But nice try on the incredibly lame spin.



>I call it the natural result of legislating morality

So, you're saying that morality has no place in the law, huh?  You sure you want to stand by that, because it's utterly untenable.  I'll give you a chance to retract.



Stick to lawyering, you'll look LESS stupid. (Bubby - 7/21/2006 1:21:29 PM)
Plan B prevents implantation of the egg, abortion requires the extraction of a fetus. How did I know you would be willfully misinformed?  Like I said, stick to issuing unsolicited legal advice, it makes you somewhat more relevant to the conversation.

Feel free to post a diary. I like target practice.