One of the things which make Harold Ford, Jr. attractive to voters in Tennessee, the conventional wisdom holds, is his "pro-life" position. Ford isn't afraid to describe himself thusly, and never objects when someone else does.

But IS HE, really? Or is his "pro-life" stance just a refinement of the standard leftist chant of being "personally opposed to abortion but must vote to preserve and expand abortions at every chance blah blah blah right to choose yadda yadda yadda?"

NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez reports on the Grand Deception:

"I'm pro-life, I'm pro-life, Tucker, so I mean, I don't run from that."

So Congressman Harold Ford Jr. told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson on Monday.

It's often been taken as a given that the attractive, smart, affable Ford is pro-life. On Fox News Sunday this past weekend Chris Wallace stated flatly in addressing Ford, "You are pro-life."

But is Congressman Ford pro-life? His record suggests otherwise.

According to the National Right to Life Committee, Ford's claim to be pro-life "is radically at odds with Ford's 10-year voting record in the U.S. House. Overall, Ford has voted against the pro-life side 87 percent of the time."

Among his most notable votes cast on this front, Ford voted against "Laci and Conner's Law," which recognizes an unborn child who is injured or killed in the commission of a federal crime as a child and crime victim. Even though the bill was not explicitly about abortion, abortion groups considered its implications and thought long term -- if we give in here, will it hurt us later? They knew it could very well, and so they opposed the bill, despite Conner Peterson. And so did Harold Ford, even though all but one member of the Tennessee congressional delegation voted for it.

In 1997, Ford was the only member of the Tennessee delegation who voted to repeal the longstanding Hyde amendment which prohibits federal funding of abortions; in 2002, he voted against the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, which would protect medical providers who don't want to perform abortions.

Read her whole column at the link above, it's a strong case AGAINST any meaningful "pro-life" belief from Ford at all. He's just sucking up to pro-lifers by claiming to being one, while playing them for suckers with his pro-abortion votes.

Or, he WAS, until K-Lo busted him. By the time she was through with Junior, he was wishing he was back at the Playboy party.