Mitt Romney: A Massachusetts Liberal for President

American Thinker ^ | January.9, 2007 | Selwyn Duke

[slowhandluke]

There is no choice really. The representatives are not going to turn away people from emergency rooms. Just like they are not going to stop requiring people to have auto insurance. Your original point that a person's health imposes no liability on others is incorrect.

Sure there is choice, every two to four years. You just don't want to pay for the charity your representatives have chosen on your behalf, so you force the recipients to pay.

Just because you don't have personal, immediate choice of whether or not to extend charity to a drunk with heart trouble doesn't give you any ethical or moral basis to force the drunk to do anything other than not drive a car.

[curiosity]

he supported legalization of the "morning-after" abortion pill, RU-486.

I stopped reading right there, since that sentence makes clear this idiot doesn't know what he's talking about.

1)RU-486 is NOT the morning after pill, and Romney never supported RU-486. These are two different pills. RU-486 will induce abortion as late as midway through the second month of pregnancy. The morning-after pill merely prevents ovluation after coitus, and hence conception, and is only effecting within 72 hours of coitus. Theoretically, in rare instances, in might prevent a fertilized egg from implanting into the uterus (i.e. before a pregnancy has begun), but there is no solid evidence that it ever has.

2) Romney vetoed a bill that would allow the dispensing of morning after pills over-the-counter. It is true, in 2002, he supported keeping the morning after pill legal, but again, I stress, he never supported RU-486.

FYI, the pro-life movement divided on the morning after pill. Some pro-lifers believe life begins at implantation, rather than conception, so to them the morning after pill has nothing to do with abortion.

I believe life begins at conception, and for right now I would still oppose the morning after pill because there is a possibility that it might stop implantation in some rare instances. However, if further research shows that this is extremely unlikely to happen, I would change my position. I certainly would not attack pro-lifers who support a legal morning-after pill given that the science surrounding it is not very solid yet.