Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., attacked Newt Gingrich for not defunding Planned Parenthood as House Speaker and for a potential willingness to put party over principle that culminated in his endorsement of pro-choice Republican Dede Scozzafava for U.S. House. Scozzafava eventually dropped out of the race and endorsed the Democrat over a pro-life third party candidate.
Saying that Gingrich “has failed to meet a consistently pro-life standard,” the Bachmann campaign quoted news stories from 1990 predicting that the Republican Party would merely “draw the line in such a way that we are clearly the party which will have fewer abortions in America than the Democrats,” adding that Gingrich said, “We will in fact be responsive to changing circumstances,” apparently in regards to which abortion restrictions have popular support.
