Cuccinelli compared slavery to abortion in 2008
The Washington Examiner is a conservative DC area paper, owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz, that this coming June will stop its daily print run and be replaced by a weekly magazine. That makes this story all the more delicious. The context of the story is that Democrats in Virginia have been pushing out a video taken by a tracker at a small small gathering of religious conservatives in Williamsburg, VA, in which the Virginia Attorney General and putative Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia equated abortion and slavery, as you can read in this AP story at Salon
The Examiner story's 2nd paragraph reads
The outspoken conservative and candidate for governor made an almost identical statement in a 2008 "Cuccinelli Compass," a regular letter he writes to supports to supporters, The Washington Examiner has learned. In it, Cuccinelli reviews a biography on British abolitionist William Wilberforce and draws a connection between Wilberforce's fight against slavery to his own efforts in the Virginia Senate to curb abortions in the state.The story also offers Cuccinelli's defense of those remarks:
For his part, Cuccinelli defended the remark last weekend during a campaign stop in Yorktown."If you go back to my remarks, I talked about a series of things in history -- I was talking to a Christian group -- and the common theme there was it was Christians who fought these tragedies
