Gingrich signs Fetal Personhood Pledge

[lynn82md.livejournal.com]

Three Republican presidential candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.), and Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), signed a vague pledge sponsored by Personhood USA affirming their support for an anti-abortion, "human life" amendment to the Constitution.

Personhood USA, the group behind the controversial Mississippi initiative that gives undeveloped zygotes full legal personhood rights and could outlaw some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization, believes that life begins at the moment of fertilization. Gingrich distanced himself from the personhood movement earlier this month when he declared that life begins at implantation, not fertilization, which is the more mainstream view held by most opponents of abortion rights.

I'm seriously hoping that signing this ridicilous pledge costs these three the Republican nomination. Surely they have noticed that the majority of the pro-life movement doesn't support this as it *gasps* affects them too (IVF, miscarriage, birth control)

Comments

[tediousandbrief.livejournal.com]

The majority of pro-life voters may not support these pledges, but I get the feeling that a majority of caucus/primary voters for the GOP either will support these issues or just not care. Primary/caucus voters tend to be further to the edges of a party (at least on the Republican side) than general election voters.