Nathan Sheets

First, I don't understand Thompson's fixation with nonexistent state laws that would send girls and women to jail who abort. There never have been such laws, and there never will be. Thompson's insistence on bringing up this abortion industry scare tactic, unprovoked by any interviewer and all the while maintaining he doesn't want to discuss hypotheticals, only puts thoughts in people's minds that ought not to be. He needs to just shut up about that.

—Jill Stanek

I have also found these comments by Thompson to be annoying, and by saying them I think that he further proves my suspicion that he's in cahoots with NARAL. I mean, really, no actual pro-lifer would ever say something like this! Well, except for me of course, advocating such laws. But I'm the only pro-lifer apparently who actually thinks that the mothers who slaughter their children should receive some form of punishment. Ahem.

While the issue of abortion "going back to the states" is certainly what I believe should happen, I don't use that argument to shield the underlying principle I have about abortion: that it's murder. If anything, saying that abortion should be left to the states should be a way of softening the blow for poor college pro-choicers who can't fathom a world without a woman's right to choose; but not the other way around.

Thompson clearly doesn't care about his pro-life base, and that's annoying. Every Republican president needs to be aware of what the people who vote for him value. Usually at this point we could laugh maniacally and say that we hold the power through the NRLC endorsement...but, oh wait, NRLC chose to endorse Thompson who 1) has yet to say abortion is morally wrong, 2) shallowly says that it's a "state issue" in order to avoid any moral grandstanding, 3) talks as if he's a NARAL intern about "girls going to jail", 4) won't sign a Human Life Amendment, 5) has a bad position on end-of-life issues. Next we'll be finding out he supported McCain-Feingold!