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The Republicans don't seem to be able to get anything right this year. Of the 45 House seats in which the 2006 winner is not running, only 11 are held by Democrats ]and only two are seats the Republicans might conceivably pick up. One of these is the D+1 OR-05 district from which Darlene Hooley (D) is retiring (the other is AL-05). The Republican running in OR-05 had at least a fair chance of winning, until an Oregon woman, now 34, has stated that Erickson impregnated her and paid for her abortion. Now Oregonians have no problem with abortions, but they have a lot of problems with sanctimonious politicians who rail against abortion and then pay for them when they get their girlfriends pregnant. As a result of this new revelation, state senator Kurt Schrader (D) is likely to hold the seat for the Democrats.
Republican abortion hypocrisy: it’s wrong unless I need one
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Mike Erickson is a Republican running for congress in Oregon. He has sent out campaign materials stressing his pro-life beliefs. Except that in 2001, when a woman he was dating got pregnant, he gave her $300 and drove her to an abortion clinic, dumping her there.
It is especially delicious when the hypocrisy of a candidate running on a pro-life platform is revealed. This isn’t about whether abortion is right or wrong, this is about using a controversial issue for political gain — declaring that abortion is murder — except maybe that doesn’t apply when a messy thing called life gets in the way of your political ambitions.
Just to make matters worse, Erickson initially tried to deny he paid for the abortion, except that medical and other records and the accounts of two witnesses back up the charges. Erickson also claims he never saw the woman again, but there are documents and photos showing him on a trip to Mexico with her two months after the abortion, and witnesses say that they spent the night together.
If abortion is murder, then paying for a murder is still murder. Sending out pro-life campaign materials is hypocrisy, and lying about it is strike three.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OR_ERICKSON_ABORTION_OROL-
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