Tom Davis added his name to the list of Virginia Republicans who use the Pro-Life movement for their political gain.
The Boston Globe reported the following on Mr. Davis:
Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee through the 2002 election, said that if the Supreme Court threw out Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established that abortion rights were protected by the Constitution, ''you're going to have a lot of very nervous suburban candidates."
How about the babies who are killed every day Mr. Davis?
At a breakfast gathering of reporters, Davis said Republicans have a political cushion with voters as long as Roe is intact. Currently, ''you can be prolife and no one feels that's a threat to someone having to make a difficult decision" if abortion is illegal, he said.
Political cushion?
Republican strategists are now pondering whether a Supreme Court ruling that voided Roe would anger moderate suburban voters and galvanize abortion rights activists, giving Democrats an edge.
I'm more concerned about the 4,000 human beings who are killed every day than angering "moderate suburban voters" and galvanizing "abortion rights activists".
That's what worries Davis. ''It's nice to make a stand" against abortion, he said, when ''it's not a real bullet, it's more theoretical."
"A real bullet"? "Theoretical"? Babies aren't dying in theory, they are dying for real, and obviously Tom Davis doesn't believe this to be true.
Republican pollster Linda DiVall said ''it would be very unlikely, in fact, historic" for any Supreme Court ruling to suddenly give Democrats a boost in swing districts, but controversial social issues such as abortion can hurt Republicans in politically moderate areas where the GOP is already on the defensive.''When you talk about abortion, immigration, and stem cell research, the trinity of those issues can have an impact on the suburban vote, because the absolutists don't see shades of gray," she said.
That's right. I don't see shades of gray when it comes to life. You are either alive or dead!!!
Politicians are using us. They run on a Pro-Life platform, get us to push the button for them, and then they go right up to the edge of the line, afraid and unwilling to cross over.
If all you want are token Pro-Life laws passed, vote for politicians who are claim to be Pro-Life. If you want abortion to be made illegal, then vote for politicians who agree that it should be illegal and who state publically that they will do everything in their power to stop it.
I'm tired of the "safe and rare" argument. Abortion is never safe for the baby who is ripped apart, piece by piece!
United we stand - Divided they die - Pass it on
Tom Davis isn't pro-life and hasn't been pro-life since he's been in Congress. So this isn't a case of a pro-life Congressman flip-flopping, it's a case of a pro-abortion Congressman hoping to shift the political winds to his advantage.
good point
Pathetic! ...thanks for the article... I didn't see that one.
I have some thoughts on three abortion related articles that have popped up over this past week. I wanted to also know if I can be added to the Pro-Life Blogroll?
Keep up the good work!
So here's a webpage that makes Davis look pro-life....
However, on the legislation at issue, it's important to note that all of those pro-life votes were on fairly safe ground. Nobody except for the hardcore pro-abortion folks is willing to defend partial-birth abortion, for example.... Davis was not asked to vote for or against any bill that would have made serious inroads into legal abortion, for the simple reason that Roe prohibits any such bills.
More telling is the following exchange from 2000, captured here:
"Bridgton, Maine: Whereas the majority of voters are pro-choice like me, how can we vote Republican in view of the platform rigidity.
Rep. Tom Davis: There are several elements of the party platform with which I disagree and other members disagree. No one agrees with every single word, but the overall platform is more to my liking than that of the Democrats.
I probably agree with you on abortion, but issues like trade, government regulation of the economy, education reform and tort reform are more important issues to me. And I tend to be more in sync with the Republicans on those issues."
Basically, Steven is mostly right. Davis is a squishy moderate on abortion. He's happy to limit the extreme cases (like PBA), but he's basically pro-choice at the core. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe gets to parade his unfortunate remarks as if they were on the lips of every Republican.... Don't ever forget the MSM bias on this issue; they'd love to see the pro-lifers tearing each other to shreds. We need to remember that when we see this kind of story....