Garcia: N.H. GOP personhood plank not constructive
Marilinda Garcia continues to evade questions regarding her position on a controversial “personhood” amendment that would prohibit abortion by defining a fertilized egg as a “pre-born” human being endowed with the rights of a citizen.
In an interview with John DiStaso and Jack Heath on WGIR radio, Garcia was asked if she agreed with the language added to the state Republican Party platform that declares support for “the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment.“
On her 2012 campaign website, Garcia described her position opposing abortion by using almost identical language: “Believing that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life and clarifying the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections as applicable to unborn children.”
Rather than clarify her position, Garcia expressed her disapproval of the delegates’ action – and criticized Democrats for noticing. "My response to that was I just didn’t think it was necessarily a constructive addition to the platform, in any particular way,” Garcia told DiStaso, “but naturally the Democratic Party chose to seize on that, and again, try to make it something bigger than it is.”