American Right to Life questions Ron Paul’s pro-life credentials

Earned Media: “American Right To Life Action, the political 527 group which claims responsibility for derailing Mitt Romney’s presidential hopes in 2008 in Iowa and South Carolina, is now targeting U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) . . . ‘Ron Paul is pro-choice, state by state,’ says the report. Paul claims that a state has the right to decide if abortion will be legal, and his ‘pro-life profile’ compares that unfavorably to other pro-choice positions. Birkey asks, ‘Should a state have the right to allow slavery? Pro-lifers will be shocked to see Paul’s actual record.’”

Libertarian writer Lew Rockwell objects: “Ron, an OB-GYN, has been a pro-life activist since medical school. He has counseled many young women out of abortions, and delivered their babies for free. He even wrote a book against abortion. Of course, he is opposed to a constitutional amendment. Who can doubt how such a new, centralizing power would be used by the feds? Instead, as a constitutionalist, he wants Roe v. Wade overturned, and the matter returned to the states. Pro-life efforts would then be local, and not part of the murderous regime in DC.”