I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

Many of these questions are extremely controversial, from abortion to gay rights, to the authority of the federal government over the states, and so on and so forth.

I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights.

[In the wake of his comments last month that he would not apply an abortion-rights] litmus test ... understands viscerally reproductive rights as being related to women's human rights. ... But he's got to come up with some better language to talk about it.

I'm not a gay rights activist.

Gay rights are human rights.