Reading the letter to the editor, “The party that’s locking up children” TRN June 19, I believe the writer has her facts wrong.
According to FactChecker.org, “In the 2014 fight for control of Congress, Democrats are sometimes using a tactic they’ve used before: Falsifying or exaggerating the positions their Republican opponents have taken on abortion. The real contrast between the parties on this polarizing issue is stark enough: Democrats tend to favor a legal right to abortion, and Republicans tend to oppose it."
In 2012, the Obama campaign repeatedly made the false claim that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney was opposed to allowing abortions for pregnancies that resulted from rape or incest. That wasn’t true, as Factchecker pointed out — again and again.”
On Sept. 25, 2014, according to Factchecker, Mr. Brooks Jackson sent a letter to the Director of Susan B. Anthony, Mary Powers. The question Mr. Jackson wanted to clarify is the position Delegate Barbara Comstock stated in July 2014, regarding abortion cases of rape and incest of a mother.
Delegate Comstock answer was; “Like Rep. Frank Wolf, who I worked for as a senior aide, I am pro-life and will work to create a culture of life and support protecting all children. I do support a life of the mother and rape and incest exception for abortion and I have voted on not funding abortion except for life of the mother and rape/incest exceptions. Those exceptions have been exceptions in the funding law for years and oppositions to funding of abortion has always had broad bipartisan support.”
“Virginia ad says GOP Rep. Scott Rigell favors limiting funds for abortions “only to victims of forcible rape.” Not true, says Factchecker.
-- Frank Egnoto, Burkburnett