Pro-Life Republicans Beware

I know that there are some pro-lifers seriously considering supporting Giuliani for President if it is the only way to defeat Hillary in 2008. But they may want to consider what a Giuliani presidency could mean for the future of the party. According to this article in the Wall Street Journal it could be the beginning of the end of the Republicans’ traditional position on social justice issues (Giuliani is pro-abortion and in favor of homosexual marriage), or at least put less of a focus on them. According to Iowa state legislator Mary Lundby, a self professed libertarian Republican signed on to Giuliani’s Iowa campaign:

“Many Republicans have questioned whether our entire party focus should be on social issues”…This year, she is increasingly hearing from Republicans whose greater interest is the economy or national defense, she says.

It’s not a majority, but they’re building support. Some Republicans are downright fed up with the focus on life issues:

“We need a more moderate party that concentrates on economic issues,” said Thomas Brady, a computer programmer and Army reservist who attended a recent $10-a-head campaign breakfast for Mr. Giuliani in Wilmington, Del. “Nothing got me more angry” than the party’s focus on social issues in 2000 and 2004, he added.

With a candidate who is only “75% in step with the party,” as one supporter pointed out, this is certain:

Mr. Giuliani’s candidacy could be helping to redefine the Republican party, just as Ronald Reagan’s did in 1980

Only then Reagan was considered too conservative. Now we have a candidate that is too liberal.

Pro-life Republicans beware. Even if a vote for Giuliani keeps the likes of Hillary Clinton out of the White House and a Republican in power, the future of the Republican party as the pro-life party will be in jeopardy.

3 Comments on “Pro-Life Republicans Beware”

Marybeth T. Hagan

07.08.2007 at 9:17 pm

I agree.

If not the Republican Party, who will represent pro-life interests?

Nobody.

Chelsea

07.09.2007 at 11:04 am

Support is growing for a new party that promises to protect life. The Constitution Party platform states:

The pre-born child, whose life begins at fertilization, is a human being created in God’s image. The first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born…

We affirm the God-given legal personhood of all unborn human beings, without exception. As to matters of rape and incest, it is unconscionable to take the life of an innocent child for the crimes of his father.

No government may legalize the taking of the unalienable right to life without justification, including the life of the pre-born; abortion may not be declared lawful by any institution of state or local government – legislative, judicial, or executive. The right to life should not be made dependent upon a vote of a majority of any legislative body…

In office, we shall only appoint to the federal judiciary, and to other positions of federal authority, qualified individuals who publicly acknowledge and commit themselves to the legal personhood of the pre-born child. In addition, we will do all that is within our power to encourage federal, state, and local government officials to protect the sanctity of the life of the pre-born through legislation, executive action, and judicial enforcement of the law of the land…

In addition, we oppose the funding and legalization of bio-research involving human embryonic or pre-embryonic cells.

Finally, we also oppose all government “legalization” of euthanasia, infanticide and suicide.

Obviously this is a very young party and third parties typically do not last long, but it will be interesting to see how much support it gets in the future. If enough people get fed up with the major parties, who knows what can happen…