McCain's pro-life credentials called into question
by Jim Brown
February 21, 2007
(OneNewsNow.com) - - The head of the Texas pro-life group Life Dynamics Incorporated says despite U.S. Senator John McCain's recent condemnation of the law that legalized abortion, the presidential hopeful is not a true pro-life candidate.Sunday, McCain told a crowd in South Carolina that he does not support Roe v. Wade and that the decision should be overturned. The senator also said, if elected president, he would appoint judges who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench."
However, according to Life Dynamics president Mark Crutcher, John McCain becomes pro-life once every four years. "Every time he gets ready to run for president, he becomes pro-life all of a sudden," the sanctity of life activist contends.
"In 1998, [McCain] told a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper that he did not believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned, and then shortly after that he told Meet the Press that Roe v. Wade should be overturned," Crutcher says, adding, "He's been all over the lot on this over the years."
The Life Dynamics spokesman says instead of questioning McCain on Roe v. Wade, which if overturned would leave the abortion issue up to individual states, Americans should just be asking the senator if he supports a "complete and all-encompassing" human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"I think what people need to understand," Crutcher observes, "is that when somebody makes those sort of ambivalent statements -- they say one thing one place, one thing another place -- this is not someone who feels this issue in their heart, because a true pro-lifer is never going to make anything other than a pure pro-life statement."
According to the pro-life advocate, McCain was attempting to pander to social conservatives and set himself apart from pro-abortion Republicans such as Rudy Giuliani and Condoleezza Rice. "So, on a personal level, I wouldn't trust him," Crutcher says. But, on the other hand, he points out, McCain is certainly not the only politician "who's like this."
