Issues Video: Torture, Abortion, Guns

Interviewed by Chris Matthews September 3 on MSNBC’s Hardball, AG Coakley took three stands:  prosecute criminal torture, subsidize abortions, control guns. 

On whether Eric Holder’s investigation of US interrogators’ handling of terrorists should include those as high up as the (former) Vice President:

…If he’s opening the investigation, and that seems what it is at this stage, he’s got to go where the facts and the evidence lead him.

Regarding whether abortions should be covered & subsidized under the new health-care bill:

I’m pro-choice… My own personal belief is that the constitution allows it, permits it, and when we recognize a constitutional right, we have some responsibility to make sure people have access to that right… The short answer [on subsidizing abortions] is yes.

On an individual’s right to own a gun:

I think there’s a huge countervailing public safety issue.  Having said that, look, my husband’s a police officer; I understand and support the right of well-trained and responsible gun owners.  That’s not the issue…  I believe in public safety that controls guns in an appropriate way.