{"id":74612,"date":"2015-09-21T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=74612"},"modified":"2015-09-21T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:37:05","slug":"fiorina-2010-roe-decided-abortion-not-litmus-test-judicial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fiorina-2010-roe-decided-abortion-not-litmus-test-judicial-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiorina in 2010: Roe &#8220;decided,&#8221; abortion not a litmus test for judicial nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Last week&#8217;s second televised debate for the Republican presidential nomination led to widespread declarations that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina won the debate.\u00a0Many\u00a0speculated that her <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/polls\/254230-poll-fiorina-takes-lead-in-new-hampshire-post-debate\">poll numbers spiked<\/a>\u00a0due in large part to her <a href=\"\/news\/cruz-fiorina-say-veto-planned-parenthood-funding-launch-investigations\/\">passionate denunciation<\/a> of Planned Parenthood. But a leading conservative pundit has questioned the GOP presidential candidate&#8217;s pro-life credentials.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Townhall&#8217;s John Hawkins <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/johnhawkins\/2015\/09\/19\/the-conservative-case-against-carly-fiorina-n2053948\/page\/full\">asked <\/a>how Fiorina could be trusted on pro-life issues,\u00a0citing comments she made during her 2010 Senate race against California&#8217;s Barbara Boxer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While trying to unseat Boxer, Fiorina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/politics\/article\/Carly-Fiorina-outlines-her-anti-abortion-stance-3194199.php\">said<\/a> that while she was running as a pro-lifer and considered life a &#8220;precious gift,&#8221; she &#8220;probably would have voted for&#8221; pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor because she &#8220;do[es] not believe where a potential judicial nominee stands on that issue is a qualifier or an unqualifier,&#8221; and that Roe v. Wade was a &#8220;decided issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law is clear in the state of California, where there is a constitutional guarantee to the right to an abortion,&#8221; Fiorina said. &#8220;So why are we talking about a theoretical issue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fiorina also <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/sep\/02\/local\/la-me-senate-20100902\/2\">said<\/a> at the time that she was willing to support federal funding for stem cell research using embryos that would have been destroyed anyway, but drew the line &#8220;when embryos are produced for the purposes of destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s second televised debate for the Republican presidential nomination led to widespread declarations that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina won the debate.\u00a0Many\u00a0speculated that her poll numbers spiked\u00a0due in large part to her passionate denunciation of Planned Parenthood. But a leading conservative pundit has questioned the GOP presidential candidate&#8217;s pro-life credentials. On Saturday, Townhall&#8217;s John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":74653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[5250,3581,19,455,2568,171,131,4594,4593,31,615,914],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fiorina in 2010: Roe &quot;decided,&quot; abortion not a litmus test for judicial nominees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One conservative pundit asks how Fiorina can be trusted on pro-life issues, citing comments she made during her 2010 CA Senate race against Barbara Boxer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fiorina-2010-roe-decided-abortion-not-litmus-test-judicial-nominees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fiorina in 2010: Roe &quot;decided,&quot; 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