Dear black voters, a picture to debunk all the "racist" claims

Twitter/MittRomneyFan ^ | 2012

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You've made up your mind a long time ago, and just keep repeating the same questionable charges.

Fifty years ago when it was still debatable whether condoms could be sold or birth control pills prescribed, these questions were very different than today. "Pro-choice" and "pro-life" positions didn't really develop and harden until after Roe v. Wade.

So if a recently elected governor were offered a bill and told that it would reduce the number of illegal abortions he might well sign it, whatever qualms he developed later. And in fact Ronald Reagan did sign that bill, whatever his convictions at the time and whatever qualms he had later. That didn't mean he went from being "pro-choice" to "pro-life." People didn't think about the issue in quite those terms then and Reagan never was a supporter of abortion in that sense, but the record is the record, and for whatever reason, he signed the bill.

If a family in 1963 was appalled by the death of a friend or relative after an illegal abortion and its members felt that such things should happen again, that didn't necessarily mean that they supported abortion on demand or would come to support it later. Maybe at the time it was just regret that such things happened in the world. Maybe it was the same wish that such things shouldn't happen that motivated Ronald Reagan. I don't know whether 17 year old Mitt was really that politically motivated or that committed on this issue, however he phrased it thirty years later. We think about these things in a much more political or ideological way than people did a half century ago.

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What a lot of words to say nothing, Romney says that he became pro-abortion in 1963, gives his mother’s greatest legacy as being courageously pro-abortion in 1970, Mitt financially supports, fund raises for, votes for pro-abortion democrats in the 1990s, campaigned for the Senate as a pro-abortion candidate, fund raised for and gave to Planned Parenthood, campaigned for Governor as pro-abortion in 2002, and then suddenly switched in 2005 to run for president, and then weeks ago went back to being pro-abortion and came out against the pro-life party platform.

Reagan was always pro-life, and was never pro-abortion, not pre RoevWade, nor after, Romney was always pro-abortion, and passionately so and still is.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Milagros.