Various pro life organizations have endorsed Fred Thompson in recent days, including the MCCL and the North Carolina Right to Life. Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com also lists other state right-to-life organizations that have endorsed Sen. Thompson. Let’s start with the North Carolina Right to Life endorsement:

“By endorsing Fred Thompson for President, North Carolina Right to Life PAC wants all North Carolinians to know Senator Thompson’s long-standing pro-life record,” Barbara Holt, the president of the group, told LifeNews.com.

Holt cites Thompson’s “unwavering commitment to protecting unborn children from abortion, and our belief in his ability to win” as other reasons to back his presidential bid.

“As President, Fred Thompson will be a strong advocate for life at all stages,” Holt told LifeNews.com.

Holt said Thompson had a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his tenure in the Senate representing Tennessee and that be thinks Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be reversed.

While supporting adult stem research which has produced 72 therapies, Fred Thompson opposes embryonic stem cell research which requires the destruction of a living human embryo and to date has produced no cures, North Carolina Right to Life explained.

Here’s some of the other state right-to-life organizations that’ve endorsed Fred Thompson:

With the pro-life group’s political action committee backing Thompson, the GOP hopeful now has the support of statewide pro-life groups from California, Minnesota, Vermont, South Carolina, Wyoming, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and New York.

Here’s the MCCL (Minnesotan Citizens Concerned for Life) endorsement:

The MCCL board of Directors, after a thorough review of all options, unanimously passed the following resolution at its November 17, 2007, meeting: “Be it resolved that the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life board of directors supports the National Right to Life Committee’s endorsement of Fred Thompson for President of the United States.”

Pro-life citizens should not be surprised that the media have cast former Senator Thompson in a negative light; his record in the U.S. Senate is 100% pro-life. Therefore any misstatements he might make on our issues become national headlines. Most national polls show that he runs within a few percentage points of defeating pro-abortion candidates Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Several other states have already followed NRLC’s lead in supporting Fred Thompson.

One thing that’s been striking has been the consistency Fred Thompson has had on life matters, whether it’s on human cloning, embryionic stem cell research or abortion. Another thing that jumps out is that Sen. Thompson has consistently held a pro life view for over two decades. That’s a direct result of thoroughly thinking things through before announcing that position.

This isn’t just on the life issue, either. The foundation for Sen. Thompson’s belief system was created when he read Barry Goldwater’s “Conscience of a Conservative” when he was still in college. That’s why he’s a giant on states’ rights issues. I’d put his Tenth Amendment record against anyone’s in the field, including Rep. Paul. (I’d also put Sen. Thompson’s libertarian record against Ron Paul’s, too.)

Here’s the statement from the California ProLife Council:

“There are so many pro-life candidates in the race,” said Lawrence Lehr, PAC Chairman. “But Fred Thompson is clearly the one, consistently pro-life candidate with the ability to win in November. It is important that pro-life voters rally around a candidate that can make a difference.”

CPLC also included this in their statement:

Fred Thompson is pro-life. He believes in the sanctity of human life and that every life is worthy of respect. He had a 100% pro-life voting record in the Senate and believes Roe v. Wade was a bad decision that ought to be overturned. He consistently opposed federal funding to promote or pay for abortion and supported the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the Child Custody Protection Act, and President Reagan’s Mexico City policy. While Fred Thompson supports adult stem cell research, he opposes embryonic stem cell research. He also opposes human cloning.

The best summarization I can think of is to say that Sen. Thompson’s position on life issues has been as consistent as it’s been comprehensive.

Voters deserve a person who’s thought things through, who’s stayed consistent with their beliefs. That’s the only way to establish credibility with the voters. That candidate is Fred Thompson.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog