(CNSNews.com) – One day after he told Jake Tapper of ABC News that he believes life begins not at conception but at “implantation and successful implantation” because if you take the other view “you’re going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich posted a statement on his campaign website saying he does believe “human life begins at conception” and reiterated his support for federal legislation that would define the unborn child from the moment of conception as having the rights of a person under the 14th Amendment.
On Friday, Gingrich’s campaign also posted a questionnaire he submitted to the National Right to Life Committee on Nov. 23 in which he stated that he believes abortions should be legal in cases of rape and incest.
In an interview that was conducted in Iowa on Friday and posted on the website of ABC News, Tapper asked Gingrich directly when he thinks human life begins.
“Abortion is a big issue here in Iowa among conservative Republican voters and Rick Santorum has said you are inconsistent,” Tapper told Gingrich. “The big argument here is that you have supported in the past embryonic stem cell research and you made a comment about how these fertilized eggs, these embryos are not yet ‘pre-human’ because they have not been implanted. This has upset conservatives in this state who worry you don’t see these fertilized eggs as human life. When do you think human life begins?”
Gingrich responded: “Well, I think the question of being implanted is a very big question. My friends who have ideological positions that sound good don’t then follow through the logic of: ‘So how many additional potential lives are they talking about? What are they going to do as a practical matter to make this real?
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If he really believes what he now claims to believe (which is doubtful, with Newt), why would abortion in the case of rape or incest not be murder?
"Gingrich backpedals" could be a standing headline.
Abortion should not be a political subject and only subject to the person or persons involved in the said act. Killing for the purpose of birth control is murder plan and simple if it is use multiple time for a unwanted baby. Rape and incest is yet still murder but it also would be cruel to put that child or woman though that ordeal. The biggest problem I have with the whole subject is that some want to use my hard earned money to murder for the purpose of birth control. Want part of we were all a human at the point of conception don't people understand. If it is a Medical reason ( A real medical reason) I understand. Synopsis: This is a political football that both sides want all or none and will never be resolved in the political arena. When it is simple, in the end and when you died you shall be judged for the things you did when you lived. No politician should have any say on this except the use of tax dollars given to people that are aborting because they conceived at the wrong time of their life. Birth Control services the left call it. I call it murder of another human being except for the ones in the case of "medical reasons" , rape, and incest.
Well because they didn't post my thoughts on this, all I will say is Newt is still better that what we have now. Barry the liar. Get over it people, or we will have four more years of Barry unplugged and executive ordering us into a new Barry World. And please don't fall for the third party independent it will only split the vote and Barry will make himself King.