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Mitt Romney Won't Call Abortion "Murder," Brownback Campaign Criticizes
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| 6/4/07
| Steven Ertelt
Posted on 06/04/2007 4:21:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: Loud Mime
Telling the truth often makes you lose elections. It takes wisdom to know when to speak absolute "truth" vs having discretion.
"Gee darling, you look like a fat cow in the outfit..." BZZZ! NOT!
"I think abortion is wrong" vs "I think anyone who has had an abortion is a heinous murderer".
To: wagglebee
Romney declined to characterize abortion that way and said that the term "means different things to different people."Well, Mitt, how about defining it from the angle of how the baby sees it? [Now wouldn't that be a Biblical revelation to a candidate who says he has his own hip-pocket prophet?]
To: wagglebee
"Romney says life begins at conception, but doesn't think abortion is murder and Romney says he's pro-life but he thinks states should be able to choose to allow abortion,"What next? A throwback to the states to allow for them whether or not slaves are property?
To: tiger-one
I know Mitt is a RINOI bear you my testimony that Mitt's a RINO
To: wagglebee
To: JRochelle
He is multiple choice Mitt.I've got an ad jingle for him: "Have it your way. Have it your way!" (It's bound to attract the post-modern vote)
To: wagglebee
I can see why Brownback isn’t getting any traction. This attack is as stupid as the come. Does anyone recall a sitting president, calling abortion murder?
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:04:59 PM PDT
by
TheLion
(How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
To: tiger-one
There are very few real conservatives left and fewer still electable. Duncan Hunter is getting no traction at all.
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:07:02 PM PDT
by
TheLion
(How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
To: wagglebee
Actually Romney has never flip flopped on abortion, that would mean being pro choice, then going pro life and then going back to pro choice. That is a flip flop.
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:09:21 PM PDT
by
TheLion
(How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
To: TheLion
It is early and let’s see what Tuesday night brings.
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:13:33 PM PDT
by
tiger-one
(The night has a thousand eyes)
To: JSDude1
Abortion is not murder, but it is taking a life because “no one knows absolutely when the soul enter the body and neither do you”!
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:19:08 PM PDT
by
restornu
(Matt.10:16 Lord's sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye wise as serpents & harmless as doves ~ Mitt 08)
To: wagglebee
Senator Browneye can go to hell. He didn’t bother to show up to vote for Norm Coleman’s critical amendment today to ban “sanctuary cities”. It failed by a single vote. What a schmuck.
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:21:45 PM PDT
by
montag813
(No More Bushes. Ever. Put it in the Constitution.)
To: TheLion
you are a willful distorter that is not what he said but that does not matter to you!
Abortion is taking a life, but it not murder, because no one knows absolutely when the soul enter the body and neither do you!
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:23:35 PM PDT
by
restornu
(Matt.10:16 Lord's sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye wise as serpents & harmless as doves ~ Mitt 08)
To: wagglebee
He added that the bottom line for him is that at conception the unborn child is "alive and it is human" and he called abortion the taking of a human life. Romney also said that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and states should be able to make their own decisions on abortion.
Admittedly, we can always feel more comfortable if they use the term 'murder'. There's no backing away from it.
But saying "the taking of a human life" is almost as strong but it avoids the implication that an aborting mother is an accomplice to a murder. We can point out that no one would ever criminalize a woman for an abortion, only the abortionists. But if we use the word 'murder', it does raise other questions and objections.
I think the language is close enough. But he has to convince me that he means it and won't morph into something else in office.
To: restornu
You must have me confused with another poster.
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:51:30 PM PDT
by
TheLion
(How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
To: restornu
Abortion is not murder, but it is taking a life because no one knows absolutely when the soul enter the body and neither do you!OK, if "no one knows absolutely when the soul enter the body," then "no one knows absolutely if the soul has entered the body" by the time a baby is a day or two old (or later), now do we?
Come on, now. People who wouldn't even lift a gun barrel in Bamby's direction are all too quick to "put down" a baby's life just because they have no spiritual detection of a soul? Alright, now that's a creepy theological position.
To: Old Student
Murder is a legal term and indicates a life taken willfully. Abortion is legal and therefore cannot be murder legally.
It's fine to say that it should be considered murder and pass laws to prosecute and end the practice. But it's not murder yet.
I'm not certain we win ultimately by tossing around those terms in public. I think we need to win people to an affirmative position, a regard for human life from conception to death.
To: Colofornian
“I bear you my testimony that Mitt’s a RINO”
You made me laugh.
And Harry Reid is a MINO (Mormon in Name Only). Ha!
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:04:26 PM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Mitt Romney for President !!!)
To: wagglebee
To: wagglebee; Coleus
I used to have a bumper sticker on my car that read, “Abortion is Murder” and it was dripping with blood. But then I got to thinkin’ . . . am I calling the woman who has an abortion a murderer or am I calling the abortionist a murderer.
I don’t have a problem with “abortion is killing” or something like that but if you start calling the girls who’ve had abortions murderers, you will not be helping them to overcome the pain and suffering. You will just make them feel worse and probably angry because it shows a lack of compassion.
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Mitt Romney for President !!!)
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