TONIGHT! Televised Presidential Prolife Forum
UPDATE, 7:52p: Personhood USA Life-stream choppy. CNN has great live-streaming here.
UPDATE, 7:15p: @thomas_hall tweets that over 40 media outlets are present…
UPDATE, 7:03p: The live-stream can be enlarged to full screen, if you didn’t notice. Sound isn’t great. I can hear better with earbuds. Tweet at hashtag #ProLifeForum.
UPDATE, 6:19p: The C-SPAN satellite truck is having problems, so the event at this point can only be seen live-streamed here (hopefully) or at Personhood USA. The stream should go live about 6:40p EST. CNN, Fox, and NBC will all be reporting live from the event, which does not mean the event will be broadcast live on those stations.
4:30p: In just a couple short hours four of the five remaining Republican presidential candidates will participate in the first ever Presidential Prolife Forum, televised beginning at 6:45p EST on C-SPAN and sponsored by Personhood USA.
Everyone in the nation, along with a standing room only crowd at the Hilton Ballroom in Greenville, South Carolina, will get to see pro-lifers Lila Rose, Daniel Becker, and Gualberto Garcia Jones interview GOP candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum.
The only candidate not present will be Mitt Romney, who reportedly had a scheduling conflict. Coincidentally, Romney is also the only candidate who has not signed Personhood USA’s Prolife Presidential Pledge.
The event will be organized as a town hall meeting, so questions will not only come from the pro-life panel but also from the audience.
You can also watch the event live-streamed here:
The Personhood USA people tell me the Forum has received a lot of media attention. Fox and CNN plan to report from the event live.
Exciting!
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Oh look, a forum for the B team. ‘preaching to the converted’.
Also known as, the race for second place!
Umm… CSPAN’s schedule doesn’t show that at all, not on CSPAN, CSPAN2 or CSPAN3. Who said it was going to be on CSPAN?
Only asking because I’d rather watch it on TV or DVR it instead of watching a stream.
Well said Ex-GOP – If romney did pick santorum as his running mate how much damage do you think it would do to his numbers?
First, I am pro-personhood. And it is a great step forward for the personhood movement that it is being taken for the serious force it is.
But this debate will be forgotten much, much sooner than Lila Rose bailing on Personhood Mississippi, suddenly taking offense to birth control and IVF, while continuing to stump for NRTL affiliates, whom all of us agree are, at the very least, neutral on birth control.
The words “pro-life hero” make me shudder.
Romney’s “Pro-Life Conversion” is a crock of bullsh*t. Won’t sign the pledge, won’t go to the forum, $50 copay for abortions in his state thanks to him…he might as well speak at a Tea Party gathering bent over, Ace Ventura-style.
Screw him.
I’m bummed. The audio quality is so terrible. I can’t follow at all! Maybe CSPAN would have been better. :(
Anyone else getting very choppy stream from livestream?
Anyone know if a good feed with good audio will be posted after the event?
I don’t know, David, but I sure hope we get a podcast or transcripts or something. I’ve caught about 0% of what Newt’s said and only about 20% of Perry.
Yes, it has been choppy since Gingrich took the stage. Frustrating.
Am told the internet connection is bad. Hope they fix this.
Watch great feed at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/cvplive/cvpstream1#/video/cvplive/cvpstream1
If you put it on “low” quality you could see and here just fine – no more choppy.
Ron Paul beasted it!!!
Reality – forgot to answer here…
Santorum’s recent intensity rating was lower than Ron Paul’s – and he wouldn’t bring much to a ticket for a guy living in the Northeast. Romney will certainly try to pull somebody from the south.
Santorum’s intensity rating actually fell over the last month – so less people like him. Obama gained a nice number and puts him pretty even with Romney at this point (and ahead of everyone else).
Thanks Ex-GOP. Aware of any contenders?
He should beg for Rubio. Newt is becoming less of a good option based on weekly breaking news of what an a*****e he is. A guy like Christie or Daniels would be great if they’d leave their current job.
The GOP is in a tricky spot. Pick another moderate and you risk losing the hard core conservatives. Pick a hard core conservative, and you risk another Sarah Palin nightmare.
I think the hard core conservatives should root for a moderate, and a loss by Romney – then they get a few years of “if you only pick a true conservative…”
I don’t know too much about him Ex-GOP.
I tend to shudder when people mention republicans from Florida.
Think a younger, Cuban version of Newt Gingrich, with only one wife (who’s pretty hot).