Policies that include more than appointing judges who will follow the law but also opposing taxpayer funded abortion and partial birth abortion.
While she favors a hike in the minimum wage and leans against fast track trade authority as a threat to state jobs, she "adamantly" favors a ban on partial birth abortions, is pro-life (with the usual exceptions), supports term limits and could support a Balanced Budget Amendment.
Ott's views on the partial-birth abortion ban and gay rights were not nearly as conservative as are Connelly's.
Mr Roberts may be able to produce a narrow ruling on partial-birth abortion.
He has supported several measures to restrict abortion rights, ban partial-birth abortion and define human fetuses as children (with attendant government-provided health benefits).
Was it because Mr. Santorum, who authored the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and opposes gay marriage, was too conservative on social issues?
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"I have been very clear over the years: We should ban partial-birth or late-term abortions, and I am against taxpayer funding for abortions, " he said.
Supporters of the late-term ban got a last-minute boost from the American Medical Association (AMA), which endorsed the ban on so-called "partial-birth" abortions on Monday.
Gallup recorded a significant drop in the number of Americans saying abortion should be legal in all cases, coincident with the emergence of a loud national debate over partial-birth abortion.
This time the target is a high-profile one: LeRoy Carhart, whose name will forever be linked with partial-birth abortion--the barely prenatal version of Kermit Gosnell's "snipping"--through a pair of Supreme Court cases: Stenberg v.
Congressional Quarterly reported that John voted with Bush 70 percent of the time, including for President Bush's tax cut, for the ban on partial-birth abortions, for barring gays in the Boy Scouts and for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The religious right, which fared poorly in the congressional elections, suffered a setback in two referendums as well: initiatives outlawing partial-birth abortion failed in Colorado and Washington, though Colorado voters did approve a separate measure requiring parental notification in the case of minors seeking abortions.
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