Fred Thompson Abortion Lobbying charge Continues
20 July 2007By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
Billing Records Show Fred Thompson Lobbied for Pro-Abortion Group Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)
– After the Los Angles Times came under fire for a possibly bogus story on former Sen. Fred Thompson lobbying for a pro-abortion group, a New York Times article on Thursday claims billing records prove it to be true. The Times reported that Thompson spent nearly 20 hours in 1991 and 1992 lobbying for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association to get the Bush administration to drop its policy preventing taxpayer funding of groups that promote or perform abortions in other nations. He spent 20 hours working for the group as an attorney at the Arent Fox law firm and most of the time was spent on the phone with the organization’s director. Thompson’s spokesman, Mark Corallo, told the Times that Thompson simply worked for clients of the law firm as a practicing attorney there and that the work was the kind Thompson would have undertaken for any client as a good attorney. “The firm consulted with Fred Thompson,” he said. “It is not unusual for a lawyer to give counsel at the request of colleagues, even when they personally disagree with the issue.” Despite his lobbying or legal work for the pro-abortion group, Thompson voted consistently in the Senate during his tenure for pro-life bills and left with a 100% pro-life voting record on abortion-related issues. In recent months leading up to a potential candidacy for the GOP nomination for president, Thompson has repeatedly said he is pro-life and supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade so states can once again prohibit abortions. The firm’s current chairman, Marc Fleischaker, told the Times that “Fred was being a good colleague by helping out one of the firm’s partner.” Thompson himself has responded to the controversy saying an attorneys work must not be misinterpreted for his personal views and beliefs.
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on July 21st, 2007 at 2:22 am
Thompson sounded good at first, but the more you know about him the less attractive he becomes. For me, I am a strong Pro-Lifer, and his lobbying efforts for a Pro Abortion organization is too much for me to support him. Thompson, Giuliani, Romney are all too liberal and not strong enough on life or are not ProLife at all. Huckabee is very Pro Life, but I think he’s dropping out and someone said Ron Paul is also a strong Pro-Lifer and delivered 4000 babies, so I am look into supporting him.
Joe