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Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 9:45 p.m. EST
McCain Says Overturn Roe v. Wade
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his
standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court
decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona
senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting
states.
McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly
interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from
the bench."
The landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose an
abortion to terminate a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has narrowly upheld the
decision, with the presence of an increasing number of more conservative
justices on the court raising the possibility that abortion rights would be
limited.
Social conservatives are a critical voting bloc in the GOP presidential
primaries.
McCain's campaign also announced early Sunday that he had been endorsed by
former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, who had been considering his own bid for
the White House, and former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who failed in his bid for
the Republican nomination in 1996.
Keating told the crowd that McCain is the "only candidate who is a
true-blue, Ronald Reagan conservative."
McCain later attended an evening rally promoting an abstinence program. He
told the crowd of more than 1,000 teens and parents that young people have
pressures far different from the ones he faced while growing up. "Sometimes
I've made the wrong choice," McCain said.
He also talked about his experience as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, and
described some of the torture he suffered. His captors "wanted to make us do
things that we otherwise wouldn't do," including confessing to war crimes,
McCain said.
He and fellow prisoners were beat up for practicing their religion, but they
continued to do it. "Sometimes it is very difficult to do the right thing,"
he said.
McCain has strong name recognition and the largest network of supporters in
South Carolina. That backing comes in part from his staunch support for the
Iraq war, something on which he focused a day earlier in Iowa. But it's the
same state that dealt a crushing blow to his presidential aspirations in
2000.
McCain is trying to build support among conservatives after a recent rebuke
from Christian leader James Dobson, who said he wouldn't back McCain's
presidential bid. Conservatives question McCain's opposition to a
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. He opposes same-sex marriage,
but says it should be regulated by the states.
Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 9:45 p.m. EST
McCain Says Overturn Roe v. Wade
Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his
standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court
decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona
senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting
states.
McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly
interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from
the bench."
The landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose an
abortion to terminate a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has narrowly upheld the
decision, with the presence of an increasing number of more conservative
justices on the court raising the possibility that abortion rights would be
limited.
Social conservatives are a critical voting bloc in the GOP presidential
primaries.
McCain's campaign also announced early Sunday that he had been endorsed by
former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, who had been considering his own bid for
the White House, and former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who failed in his bid for
the Republican nomination in 1996.
Keating told the crowd that McCain is the "only candidate who is a
true-blue, Ronald Reagan conservative."
McCain later attended an evening rally promoting an abstinence program. He
told the crowd of more than 1,000 teens and parents that young people have
pressures far different from the ones he faced while growing up. "Sometimes
I've made the wrong choice," McCain said.
He also talked about his experience as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, and
described some of the torture he suffered. His captors "wanted to make us do
things that we otherwise wouldn't do," including confessing to war crimes,
McCain said.
He and fellow prisoners were beat up for practicing their religion, but they
continued to do it. "Sometimes it is very difficult to do the right thing,"
he said.
McCain has strong name recognition and the largest network of supporters in
South Carolina. That backing comes in part from his staunch support for the
Iraq war, something on which he focused a day earlier in Iowa. But it's the
same state that dealt a crushing blow to his presidential aspirations in
2000.
McCain is trying to build support among conservatives after a recent rebuke
from Christian leader James Dobson, who said he wouldn't back McCain's
presidential bid. Conservatives question McCain's opposition to a
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. He opposes same-sex marriage,
but says it should be regulated by the states.
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