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Rod at the Nest Domestic Violence Center in Ruidoso Downs
ISSUES: Life
I support life.
I oppose "abortion on demand," i.e. the notion that an individual may get an abortion for any reason whatsoever-----including simply using abortion as a form of birth control, or using abortion to select the desired sex of a child, etc. The prohibition of abortion as merely another form of birth control would eliminate more than 99% of all abortions.
Regarding abortion in the case of rape, incest, severe congenital defects, et cetera, these are questions, like all matters relating to this subject, that should be left to the people. In a republic that means the state legislatures.
The New Mexico Legislature adopted a very liberal abortion statute several years before Roe v. Wade. You could get an abortion on demand in New Mexico in the 1960s.
Regarding the United States Constitution, there is no mention of abortion, or anything related to abortion anywhere in the document. That being the case, the question of abortion properly belongs to the people.
I do not support "constitutional interpretations" which purport to find either 1) a guarantee of abortion, or 2) a prohibition of abortion. The Constitution is silent on the issue.
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