INDIANOLA, Iowa – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said Wednesday that he has “always struggled” with his position on abortion and clarified remarks he made a day earlier to indicate he would allow abortion if a woman’s life were at risk.
The Texas governor, campaigning hard in the final week ahead of Iowa’s lead-off Jan. 3 caucuses, had told a pastor Tuesday that he had undergone a “transformation” on abortion rights after meeting a woman, Rebecca Kissling, who said she was conceived during a rape. She was featured in former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s anti-abortion documentary, “The Gift of Life,” and Perry attended its Iowa premier.
A day later, Perry said he opposes abortion rights in cases of rape and incest, but would allow the legal procedure if the pregnancy threatened the mother’s life.
“I think I’ve always struggled with that issue,” Perry told reporters after meeting with voters in a sports bar. “After I went to see the movie a `Gift of Life’ and had a conversation with Rebecca Kissling, and I really thought about this through the Christmas holidays and that’s the conclusion I came to.”
Asked if a mother’s life was the only instance when he would allow abortion, he was
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