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It boils down to this, before Roe vs. Wade many, if not most states had medical commissions set up to review petitions for abortions. Its simply untrue that women didn't have access to abortion. They just had to show that there was medical necessity for it.

I know a woman that was mad as hell at the State becuase the medical commission wouldn't grant her petition for abortion because her in utero child had Down's Syndrome.

The pro-abortion people try and paint it as a "denial of medical help" issue. But being pregnant, for the vast majority of occurances, is not a life threatening or even general health hazard. So, in effect, abortion isn't a response to a medical issue of the woman. Instead it is the taking of a life for the convenience of another person.

FDT gets it right. You can be pro-life or pro-choice, but anyone who has read the Constitution and is honest with themselves knows that abortion is not an issue for federal government beyond want happens on federal property. Abortion policy is not supposed to be made on a nation-wide level by one-person majority on the US Supreme Court; it is supposed to be made on the state and local level by the people and their elected representatives.
As one who is pro-life I hope that someday enough people in this country will respect life enough that we can pass an amendment to Constitution in some shape or form, but until then this is a matter that should be determined by the people, not five unelected, unaccountable lawyers in black robes in Washington, DC.

Clearly, Fred Thompson is pro-life from these comments. By wanting this to be a state issue, he necessarily needs to have Roe v. Wade overturned. That he wants parental notification is a great sign, and the fact that he doesn't like the procedure is clear in his comments, too.

Whoever did the video apparently is grasping at straws.