{"id":7417,"date":"2004-04-25T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/clarifying_1.html"},"modified":"2004-04-25T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T12:14:43","slug":"clarifying_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/clarifying_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheen takes his name off the list<\/a><\/p>\n

Actor Martin Sheen has backed out of being listed as an endorser for the pro-abortion march sponsored by leading abortion advocacy groups. Whether the listing of him as a sponsor was accidental or if Sheen didn’t know the march’s purpose is to support abortion is still a question.<\/p>\n

That Sheen, who plays a fictitious president on the hit NBC drama “West Wing,” was listed as a sponsor of the pro-abortion march was a surprise. Though he holds liberal views on other political issues, Sheen is a longtime pro-life supporter.<\/p>\n

In 2001, Sheen was listed by Feminists for Life, a pro-woman group, as a “Remarkable Pro-Life Man,” along with actor Ben Stein, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), and columnist George Will. Sheen’s wife Janet signed off on the article.<\/p>\n

Sheen has also been a longtime supporter of the Seamless Garment Network, a pro-life group that also opposes war, poverty, abortion, racism, and capital punishment.<\/p>\n

Calls from LifeNews.com to Glennis Liberty, Sheen’s publicist, were not returned by press time.<\/p>\n

However, Serrin Foster, the president of Feminists for Life, suspects that Sheen or a representative may have signed up to be a sponsor of the march because of other political issues, not realizing that its main thrust is promoting abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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