Mccain Says Overturn Roe V. Wade

[cmotherofpirl]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 9:45 p.m. EST
McCain Says Overturn Roe v. Wade


Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.

"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.

McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench."

The landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose an abortion to terminate a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has narrowly upheld the decision, with the presence of an increasing number of more conservative justices on the court raising the possibility that abortion rights would be limited.

Social conservatives are a critical voting bloc in the GOP presidential primaries.

McCain's campaign also announced early Sunday that he had been endorsed by former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, who had been considering his own bid for the White House, and former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who failed in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1996.

Keating told the crowd that McCain is the "only candidate who is a true-blue, Ronald Reagan conservative."

McCain later attended an evening rally promoting an abstinence program. He told the crowd of more than 1,000 teens and parents that young people have pressures far different from the ones he faced while growing up. "Sometimes I've made the wrong choice," McCain said.

He also talked about his experience as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, and described some of the torture he suffered. His captors "wanted to make us do things that we otherwise wouldn't do," including confessing to war crimes, McCain said.

He and fellow prisoners were beat up for practicing their religion, but they continued to do it. "Sometimes it is very difficult to do the right thing," he said.

McCain has strong name recognition and the largest network of supporters in South Carolina. That backing comes in part from his staunch support for the Iraq war, something on which he focused a day earlier in Iowa. But it's the same state that dealt a crushing blow to his presidential aspirations in 2000.

McCain is trying to build support among conservatives after a recent rebuke from Christian leader James Dobson, who said he wouldn't back McCain's presidential bid. Conservatives question McCain's opposition to a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. He opposes same-sex marriage, but says it should be regulated by the states.

[Groo the Wanderer]

I WANT to believe him, but he has been soooo whacked on other things. Dunno yet if I can trust him, or if he is just shilling for my vote.

Not much hope so far on the right for decent candidates. As for the left...piffle.

[Maggyie]

I'm sorry to say that McCain is behaving like what my family calls a pander bear...

[Didymus]

I believe him, but there isnt much to doubt here. He's a republican, and overturning Roe v. Wade would mean putting more power back into the states in his mind. We would somewhat solve an international problem by merely downsizing it to the range of a state. Then again, It would be far easier to work on getting the entire state of Illinois to respect life than it would be the whole country. It might complicate things a little though, because I doubt he's willing to plan a national ban on abortion at all.

He is DEFINITELY not Reagan though. There is no Reagan running.

[Maggyie]

[quote name='Didymus' post='1201641' date='Feb 21 2007, 11:55 AM']He is DEFINITELY not Reagan though. There is no Reagan running.[/quote]
Unfortunately true. Although Reagan didn't do as much for the pro-life cause as people think...