We call on New Hampshire pro-lifers to leave the line for governor blank. Skip over the governor’s race and simply fill out the rest of the primary ballot instead.
This is a carefully-considered decision and is not simply a gesture of protest. We hope that you will consider our reasoning before you vote.
Media outlets and the Republican establishment will claim that Cornerstone is taking an uncompromising, “all-or-nothing” stance over abortion. But this is not true. Cornerstone often endorses candidates who are middle-of-the-road on abortion. We have always promoted compromise to move the ball forward in the fight for life.
This gubernatorial primary is different. If pro-lifers participate in this race – even to vote for the “less wrong” candidate – the ball will likely be permanently taken off the field, never to return again in your lifetime.
Both Kelly Ayotte and Chuck Morse have said that they will categorically oppose any restriction on abortion, whatsoever, before a child has reached 6 months of gestation – a time when the child is already able to survive outside the womb.
With the sole exception of Chris Sununu’s fourth run in 2022, no major GOP candidate for governor in America has ever committed to a position this pro-abortion. Before 2019, not even a Democrat gubernatorial candidate would’ve expressly run on this position. Even two years ago, a “moderate Republican” candidate would’ve drawn the line around 15 weeks of gestation, when the child clearly “looks like a baby”: not on the very day a child is ready to survive.
Had either candidate espoused even a moderately pro-life position, we would have endorsed that candidate.
We are not calling for a boycott because Ayotte and Morse are imperfect. Instead, we call on pro-lifers to sit this one out because both candidates are unacceptably pushing the envelope of what is acceptable in a Republican primary in a pro-abortion direction.
Pro-lifers who feel tempted to vote in this gubernatorial primary should remember that neither of these candidates has made any attempt at all to court the pro-life vote. If you are still willing to vote in this primary, why should any Republican gubernatorial candidate ever seek your vote again?
