Michael Baumgartner Quotes
I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
La Corte, Rachel. "GOP Senate Candidate Baumgartner Clarifies Abortion Stance." Associated Press, 24 Aug. 2012.
In most parts of the country, if the legislators did not carve out the exceptions for rape incest and danger to the life of the mother, they would lose the majority of their support as most Americans who oppose the freedom of abortion that existed after Roe v. Wade, but really do not view abortion in the early trimester as murder. They just think that the regulation should be greater than it is.
Churches are political organizations too and are subject to the forces of their membership. In the case of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1971 they passed resolutions to assure the right of a woman to have an abortion to protect her health. The position on abortion changed steadily thereafter to even pass Constitutional amendments to ban abortions except to save the life of the mother. See {614356},54122, {614358}, {614359}, {614360}, {614361} for the dynamic history of the change.
Michael James Baumgartner is an American politician currently serving as the Spokane County Treasurer. A member of the Republican Party, he was a member of the Washington State Senate for eight years and his party's nominee in the 2012 election for the United States Senate, unsuccessfully challenging Democratic incumbent Maria Cantwell.