Today’s Unioin Leader features a story on the opinions of "New Hampshire’s pro-life leaders" on the GOP contenders for 2008.
Here’s a snippet: "But Darlene Pawlik, president of New Hampshire Right to Life, said she is not impressed by the front-runners. ‘How can you be pro-life if you have an exception?’ she asked. ‘Brownback, Huckabee and Ron Paul, these are the pro-life candidates.’"
There’s a word to describe Paul and Brownback, especially Paul, and at this point it applies to Huckabee as well: UNELECTABLE.
Something else of interest in this article is polling data from UNH that supports what the votes of the Legislature on abortion have long indicated — the NH GOP is not like the rest of the GOP when it comes to abortion: "UNH Survey Center director Andrew Smith said New Hampshire Republicans are more pro-choice than the national average. He pointed to national polls showing only about one-quarter of Republican voters favor unlimited abortions. In New Hampshire, the corresponding number is more than one-third.
In an April poll in New Hampshire, Smith said, 34 percent of self-identified Republicans said abortion should be legal in all circumstances, 52 percent said it should be legal only in limited circumstances such as cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger, and 14 percent said it should not be legal under any circumstances.
Among registered Republicans and undeclared voters who say they will vote in the GOP primary, 34 percent said abortions should be legal under all circumstances, 50 percent said it should be legal under limited circumstances and 13 percent said it should not be legal under any circumstances. "
