Constitution Party Supports Pro-Abort, Then Lies About It

So much for the "purity" argument.

by Rod D. Martin
May 17, 2006

Yes, you heard right, by their own standards at least. The Nevada state affiliate of the Constitution Party has chosen to endorse abortion "exceptions" for rape and incest, and the Constitution Party's national committee has voted not to terminate their affiliation with the national party -- deliberately keeping them in the party, pro-abort stance and all. As we hear it, CP founder Howard Phillips himself asserted -- in voting for Nevada -- that the principle of federalism was more important than what Nevada had done.

Hmmm....

If Constitution Party people weren't so consistently obnoxious about how "pure" they are, we wouldn't mind (even though we note that the Republican platform makes no such exceptions, and even though we -- along with Ronald Reagan -- don't quite see how killing an innocent baby is a legitimate response to an act of rape or incest by one or both of its parents).

Anyway, I pointed this out to an antagonistic Constitution Party type (who, im…