The conservative activist and Constitution Party member side-eyes GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's support for "abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest and the health and life of the mother" and that abortion is a matter for the courts: "The health of the mother exception is universally recognized by authentic pro-lifers as a loophole you can drive Roe v. Wade through."
He also slams Mr. Romney's "settled law" argument: "Translation: Pro-life is whatever the Supreme Court says it is. Romney's statement proves that with his nomination, the Republican Party effectively ceases to be the Party of Lincoln. Lincoln recognized that where a fundamental issue of unalienable rights is involved, no Supreme Court decision that fails to respect the principles of America's Declaration of Independence 'settles the issue.' By contrast, what we hear in Romney's interview is the slavish surrender of unchecked, unconstitutional, just plain tyrannical power to the federal courts. Did the Dred Scott decision in 1857 settle the issue of slavery? Not for Lincoln. No more can the present U.S. Supreme Court's pro-abortion jurisprudence settle the issue of abortion for us. In keeping with the Lincolnian heritage, the pro-life movement has been rooted in the Declaration's avowal of the Creator-endowed, equal, unalienable right to life. That's one of the things that made the Party of Lincoln its natural home."
Alan Keyes: "In His CBS Interview, Mitt Romney Abandons The Party Of Lincoln On The Abortion Issue"
