Abortion Betrayals
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| Date | Name(s) | Party | Office | Stated Position | Betrayal | Comments |
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| March 21, 2010 | Bart Stupak | Democrat | Congressman (MI) |
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Stupak abandoned his position and betrayed the trust of the American people by allowing the passage of Obamacare, which pays for at-will abortions with Federal funds. [2] | Voted against the Pence Amendment to ban funding to Planned Parenthood in 2009. [3] |
| May 21, 2003 | Dennis Kucinich | Democrat | Congressman (OH) | Rated 95% Pro-life in his 1st three-terms as Congressman by the National Right to Life Committee in 2000. | Kucinich abandoned his position when he decided to run for President. He would give a campaign speech, "as president, I would protect that right [to abortion], and I would also make sure that appointees to the Supreme Court protected that right." | He never received more than 3% of the vote, ranked last. |
| 1996 | Richard Durbin | Democrat | Senator (IL) | As a Congressman he was the speaker at the annual right-to-life rally, "I believe we should end abortion on demand, and at every opportunity, I have translated this belief into votes in the House of Representatives," "I continue to believe the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade should be reversed." [4] | When running as a Senator he changed his position to pro-abortion saying, "And I finally came to the conclusion that we really have to try to honor the Roe vs. Wade thinking, that there are certain times in the life of a woman that she needs to make that decision with her doctor, with her family and with her conscience and that the government shouldn't be intruding." | Votes for Obamacare whereby the government intrudes in everyones health issues. Rated 100% by NARAL in 2003 |
| 1992 | Richard S. Williamson | Republican | nominee for U.S. Senate for Illinois | signed a pro-life pledge during the campaign | disavowed his pledge once Carol Moseley Braun became his opponent, whom he hoped to defeat by becoming pro-choice | lost in a landslide after his duplicity was exposed; Pro-life Peter Fitzgerald then defeated Moseley Braun the next time |
| July 6, 1990 | Buddy Roemer | Democrat[5] | Louisiana Governor | "we've had a betrayal by a governor who has been on the record as pro-life" [6] | vetoed a pro-life bill passed by overwhelming majorities in the legislature | the legislature overrode his veto; Roemer was defeated for reelection and could never win an election again |
| 1986 [7] | Richard Gephardt | Democrat | Congressman(MO) | His first term in Congress, Gephardt voted pro-life 96 percent of the time. By his third term is was down to 64%. By 1989 it was down to 11%. He changed his position to saying that he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would preserve Roe v. Wade. | Gephardt told the pro-abortion group NARAL that his Baptist upbringing taught him abortion was wrong but, over time, friends and colleagues were able to convince him otherwise, "There is nothing moral in strong-arming a personal belief, and there is nothing moral to a presidency that imposes personal morality through acts of government power." | He would run for President in 1988 but his pro-abortion switch contributed to an unflattering view of him as a political opportunist without firm principles. |
References
- â http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Bart_Stupak.htm
- â http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/22/and-judas-said-unto-them-%E2%80%9Cwhat-will-you-give-me-if-i-betray%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D/
- â FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 643, House.gov, July 2, 2009
- â Constituent 'Violated' by Durbin Change on Abortion, Crosswalk.com
- â Later he switched parties.
- â Quoting Burke Balch, a state legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee. [1]
- â He claims his flip-flop didn't occur when running for President in 1988. His record indicates pro-life erosion over time