GALLAGHER PULLING CHOICE CARD FOR HIS CAMPAIGN

"It's wrong to play politics with women's lives...Tom was prochoice 10 years ago, and now he's self-proclaimed anti-choice? I'm not sure what he'll do should he be elected."

Those words from Stephanie Grutman, executive director of the Florida Alliance for Planned Parenthood, in reaction to state Chief Financial Officer and GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher's announcement Monday that he would lead the way for a 24 hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion.

His main Republican challenger, Attorney General Charlie Crist, is anti-choice but voted against such a waiting period as a state senator ten years ago. All three of the major Democratic contenders --- former Tallahassee mayor and state Democratic Party chairman Scott Maddox, State Senator Rod Smith of Alachua, and Congressman Jim Davis of Tampa --- support a woman's right to choose.

When Gallagher ran for governor previously, in 1994, he said the issue of abortion should be between a woman and her physician. He even told the Florida Federation of Republican Women during a debate then that "Government should stay out of that particular relationship."

For good reading, I suggest this piece from Mike over at his Florida News blog. Tom Gallagher is nothing more than a hack for the Liberty Council, Family Research Council, and other right-wing groups. He simply has no core beliefs/principles, and this move proves it.