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BUCHANAN REMAINS
ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Date: August 14, 1999
To: Telegraph Herald - Dubuque, IA
Isn't it amazing how the pro-lifers have suddenly become the most sought-after
voting bloc for candidates in the Iowa Republican straw poll today? They were
once ridiculed.
Please note in the TH article on page 10A, July 31, how the Christian Coalition
fired the head of one of their affiliates for daring to speak out on Steve
Forbes' attempt to hire workers from her Metro-Temp employment agency to vote
for him on the poll date.
Four years ago social conservatives were leery about Forbes, but he has
recently mailed reams of material on his pristine pro-life stand.
"I don't buy his conversion," said Bobbie Gobel, the woman who was fired. However she was merely repeating
Forbes' own words from a Feb. 4, 1996, TH article on the candidates and the
issues, quoting Forbes as saying he
"favored the right to abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy." He garnered only 122 votes at the Dubuque County caucus.
Alan Keyes, too, favored exceptions, saying
"abortion should be legal only when the woman's life is in danger." This could include rape and mental health problems. Physicians have long ago
insisted that there is never a moral reason for murder of the child in the
womb. Attempts should be made to save both mother and infant.
Only one Republican candidate has been
"right from the beginning" proclaiming consistently the sacredness of human life from conception to
natural death. That is
Pat Buchanan, who won the Dubuque County caucus with an overwhelming 870 votes in 1996. He's
a man of principle pro-lifers can trust.
Lois Pusateri
Dubuque, Iowa
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