Feel free to pass this along to anyone who may be in need of clarification on my stance against abortion. This means that abortion involves the unjust taking of a human life. Medical procedures resulting in fetal loss, except as a collateral and unintended consequence of efforts to save the mother's physical life, are therefore impermissable. The mere fact that the individual in the womb is wholly in its mother's physical power and completely dependent upon her for sustenance gives her no right whatsoever with respect to its life, since the mere possession of physical power can never confer such a right. Might does not make right.
Abortion is, therefore, a breach of the fundamental tenets of our public moral creed.
You've made abortion one of the centerpieces, if not the centerpiece of your campaign. Under what circumstances should a woman be allowed to have an abortion. You know I think that abortion is a basic violation of our declaration principles and the only time I can see that one would allow it is in the case of the clash between the unalienable right to life of the child and the unalienable right to life of the mother. So in the case of a direct threat to the physical life of the mother, I think abortion has to be there as an option. Otherwise, it is against our principle of justice and it should not be allowed.