Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state, has found himself in Democratic crosshairs for equating the fight over slavery to the modern-day campaign against abortion, the Associated Press reported Tuesday:
“Over time, the truth demonstrates its own rightness, and its own righteousness. Our experience as a country has demonstrated that on one issue after another. Start right at the beginning – slavery. Today, abortion,” Cuccinelli said in remarks recorded by a Democratic Party tracker at a Family Foundation event on June 14, 2012.
“History has shown us what the right position was, and those were issues that were attacked by people of faith aggressively to change the course of this country,” he said. “We need to fight for the respect for life, not just for life but for respect for life. One leads to the other.”
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