Posted on 05/15/2007 3:49:32 AM PDT by fabrizio
Massachusetts, May 14, 2007 / 03:56 pm (CNA).- Massachusetts Citizens for Life honored former Governor Mitt Romney on Thursday at their Mother’s day Pioneer dinner. Governor Romney is currently running for the Republican nomination for President.
Romney recounted his journey to his present day pro-life positions. . “I follow a long line of converts—George Herbert Walker Bush, Henry Hyde, Ronald Reagan.” He described how after studying embryo farming and cloning, he began to focus more on life issues. Until then he was publicly pro-choice and pledged to support Roe v. Wade. After speaking to scientists who supported embryo cloning for research purposes and studying the subject in great detail, he realized that “the Roe v. Wade mentality ha[d} so cheapened the value of human life that rational people saw human life as mere research material to be used, and then destroyed. The slippery slope could soon lead to racks and racks of living human embryos, Brave New World-like, awaiting destruction.”
He continued, "[w}hat some see as a mere clump of cells is actually a human life. Human life has identity. Human life has the capacity to love and to be loved. Human life has profound dignity, dignity undiminished by age or infirmity.”
As a result of this conversion, he stated that he publicly acknowledged his error. He sought to live up to his commitment to life by fighting to ban cloning and embryo farming. He sought to define life at beginning at conception rather than at implantation. Additionally, he supported abstinence education in schools.
Romney also warned against the growing trend in the courts to decide on issues that should be decided by the people. "Make no mistake: abortion and same-sex marriage are not rights to be discovered in the Constitution.” He reminded the audience of the important role the President plays in selecting judges who properly understand their limited roll as “servants of the law.”
Romney, as is the case for the rest of the so called candidates is/are frauds of the highest order.
Please explain, Jeremy - do think Romney is a fraud because it is not possible to become pro-life after supporting abortion in the past?
If their reasoning for becoming prolife was so profound 25-30 years ago, why didn't you change your reasoning back then instead of recently?
Why do you think the left and Planned Murderhood does not want patients to be informed?
Romney is a fraud because he didn’t make any “journey” of change at all. All he did was flip flop so that he could get votes. Anyone who believes he had an epiphany is a fool.
It was merely an announcement of convenience.
Coincidence, surely!
Of course he didn't announce either his presidential interest or his sudden pro-life conversion until a few months later.
When did Mitt's newfound beliefs start to come out? Well, one major milestone was when Mitt was campaigning in South Carolina, an early presidential primary state. He called himself pro-life and started bashing Massachusetts.
But a coincidence, surely!
“If their reasoning for becoming prolife was so profound 25-30 years ago, why didn’t you change your reasoning back then instead of recently?”
Because we hadn’t really thought about it back then. “When I was a child, I thought and acted as a liberal. When I became an adult I gave up liberal ways.” Romney’s conversion mirrors my own. I wasn’t raised pro-life. When the partial-birth abortion issue came up, it forced me to shut out everything else, and sit down and really think about this. In a short time, the reality and obvious truth of the matter came crashing through in a way that can never be reversed. I am ashamed that I ever thought differently, but I’m glad that I no longer do. There are some people whose pro-life stances strike me as wishy-washy or finger-in-the wind; I don’t get that feeling from Mitt, and I’ve seen a pretty good amount of him, being from Mass. (where is the road out of here?).
As a convert, I am often perplexed by the tendency of many pro-life people to reject the conversion of others. We’re sorry we’re late to the party. Can we come in, or are you going to leave us out in the cold, now that we’ve left our old friends, and in many cases, split with our families?
Not Duncan Hunter
Exactly.
He is also a fraud with his position on the 2ND Amendment. Does not Veto the MA AWB, because he knows it will be overridden. But he does Veto hundreds of spending bills, which are overridden. So Mitt “the flip” did not know these spending bills would be overridden? The spending bills veto was a symbolic ploy by Mitt for his run for POTUS
I attended a Mennonite Church in my youth. For me to think of ANY Amish or Mennonite agreeing with abortion would be just as disheartening.
ever heard of the 4th dimension?
nobody should vote for the lesser of two evils because it is still evil. The whole lesser of two evils mentality is exactly why this country is still killing babies, pro-UN, anti-sovereignty, pro criminal alien onslaught and well on its way for mandatory acceptance of the perverted sodomites.
Didn’t you assume Mormons were pro-life? That’s certainly the image their church attempts to broadcast, and most Mormons, in fact, mistakenly believe their church opposes abortion and regards it as an objective evil. But not so.
Indeed, the Mormon church accepts abortion for a number of reasons. The Church Handbook of Instructions, approved in September, 1998, states that abortion may be performed in the following circumstances: pregnancy resulting from rape or incest; a competent physician says the life or health of the mother is in serious jeopardy; or a competent physician says that the "fetus" has severe defects that will not allow the "baby" to survive beyond birth. In any case, the persons responsible must first consult with their church leader and receive God’s approval in prayer (156).
OK, it's probably not fair to Mormons to quote a Catholic anti-Mormon web site posting to show their beliefs.
OK. If Romney was also a late convert to the LDS church, I actually might buy this.
But why would it take simple biological science to convert this man when his own lifetime theology is that every baby inhabits a spirit that was born in heaven in the Mormon Pre-existence? I mean, LDS in this way have a peculiar understanding of pregnancy: It's a bus ride into this colony from Kolobville.
So he's now telling us that he never understood that every hour when there's dozens, if not hundreds, of abortions in this country that it's tantamount to the bus driver from Kolobville driving off a cliff?
Now if he didn't really believe in Kolobville in the mid-90s. If he didn't believe in the Mormon pre-existence, then OK, pro-life "conversion" is consistent. But where there's inconsistencies, there ya find integrity issues.
thanks for the Mormon position on abortion
Bigotry in America?
http://www.allaboutmormons.com/ENG_Video62.php
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