U.S. Senate Candidate Scott Brown to be in Chicago October 9
CONCORD, NH – Heather Clarke of Christian News is reporting that Scott Brown, the GOP U.S. Senate candidate for New Hampshire, has rejected his party’s adoption of a pro-life platform that expressed the personhood and subsequent right to life of unborn children.
Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who now resides in New Hampshire, is running against Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. Last weekend, the New Hampshire Republican Party adopted a platform outlining its belief in “the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment,” as well as its support for the “Life at Conception Act.”
Shaheen blasted Brown and the party for the language used in the platform, calling it “disturbing.” Brown joined his Democrat opponent in denouncing it.
Echoing a phrase Illinois' Mark Kirk used in his 2010 campaign for U.S. Senate, Brown told an audience at the University of New Hampshire School of Law: “I’m a pro-choice, independent Republican. [emphasis added] So I don’t agree with that particular part of the platform, however I have always felt that we are a big tent party, we have the opportunity to agree or disagree.”
Keith Mason of Personhood USA expressed classified Brown’s stance as “extreme opposition” to the state party platform.
“Can you imagine a Democratic Senate candidate doubling down on his unqualified hostility for the Democratic Party platform on such an important issue?” asked Mason. “There’s no way the Democratic party bosses would allow it to happen. This is a clarion call for the Republican Party to stand up to poseurs in its own party who undermine principles of human rights and dignity.”
“Scott Brown has staked out an extreme position on abortion that contradicts the conservative values of his electorate,” Mason continued. “I commend the New Hampshire Republican Party for following in the steps of President Reagan by taking this principled stand on the most important human rights issue facing our nation.”
Brown has also raised concerns among voters for posing nude during a Cosmopolitan photo shoot in 1982, and was named the magazine’s “sexiest man.”
