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Why the Anti-Choice Movement Supports the McCain-Palin Ticket

• "Senator John McCain, has consistently taken a strong pro-life position against abortion, has a strong pro-life voting record against abortion and opposes Roe v. Wade."
  - National Right to Life, in its endorsement of McCain on April 7, 2008
  
  
• "I wanted a commitment from either George Bush or John McCain that if elected he would appoint pro-life judges to the Supreme Court... Bush said he had no litmus test, and his judges would be strict constructionists. But McCain, in private, assured me he would appoint pro-life judges."
  - Gary Bauer, a social conservative politician who endorsed McCain in his 2000 presidential bid, The New Yorker, May 2005
  
  
• "While he has not been especially outspoken on abortion-related questions, there is no denying that his pro-life voting record is strong and consistent. Indeed, it is one of the best in the Senate... Few elections in our lifetime have been as consequential for the pro-life cause as this year's is likely to be. The next president will likely determine the course of the Supreme Court for decades to come, and will make the difference between continuing the progress made by the pro-life movement in the past three decades or reversing course."
  - Robert P. George, a pro-life constitutional scholar and a professor at Princeton University
  
  
• "With this bold and inspired selection [of Gov. Palin], Sen. McCain has verified his stated commitment to assembling a truly pro-life administration…. You can be sure the vice presidential selections will have far-reaching ramifications in this race."
  - Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life president
  
  
• "Absolutely brilliant choice. John McCain could not have chosen a better vice-presidential nominee that Gov. Palin. She is attractive, articulate, conservative, pro-family, pro-life, and pro-marriage. John McCain hit this one out of the ballpark. She is very pro-life. She has a Down Syndrome child. She's committed to pro-life. She understands the commitment to the sanctity of human life."
  - Mat Staver, pro-life attorney and founder of Liberty Council