Will Noriega Sponsor a "No Abortionist Left Behind Act"?

San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts created a stir by announcing that he was running for Senate as a Democrat who inexplicably does not favor abortion on demand:

I personally have the view: I hold the pro-life position with three exceptions: one for rape, one for incest, one for the life of the mother. But I don't claim to the Republican position of slippery slopes that you have to eliminate incredibly important medical research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's because of the slippery slope argument on stem cells. I don't buy into that at all. There are clean stem cells and there are fabulous doctors all over the country who are making incredible progress toward two diseases that debilitate a large portion of our elderly population. I'm not going to apply a litmus test to any nominee to the United State's Supreme Court. I don't get to make the choice as to who the nominee is. But if I'm voting, there is not going to be a litmus test on that issue in any way shape form or fashion.

Likely Senate opponent Rick Noriega, a Houston-based consigliere for Enron-wannabe CenterPoint Energy, will be quick to respond. Not to be outdone by Watts, I anticipate the following announcement from the Noriega campaign in the near future:

"If elected to the Senate, my first priority will be to protect abortion on demand," Noriega said. "I have drafted a bill entitled the 'No Abortionist Left Behind Act,'" he continued, "and I will not rest until every man and woman and child in America can get a drive-by abortion 24 hours a day at one of the drive-thru clinics I propose we build on every street corner from sea to shining sea!" Noriega added, "God bless America!"