Romulans are famous for their ability to flip from one side of an issue to another...it is not at all surprising to find that the Romneys once supported Planned Parenthood and now conveniently "don't recall" their donations.
Posted on 08/14/2007 4:27:33 AM PDT by monomaniac
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Mitt Romney's wife Ann told a television news program this weekend that she doesn't remember a Planned Parenthood donation she made 13 years ago. She said she no longer supports abortion and said she joins her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt, in taking a pro-life viewpoint.
In May, the Romney presidential campaign disclosed that his wife formerly supported abortion and that the couple donated money to the nation's leading abortion business.
Romney has come under heavy criticism for flip-flopping on the issue of abortion just a few years ago after campaigning as a pro-abortion candidate in previous elections.
The campaign disclosed that the couple donated $150 to Planned Parenthood in 1994.
Though both Romneys strongly condemned the donation months ago, the campaign of Sam Brownback brought up the contribution in radio ads in recent weeks leading up to Saturday's straw poll vote.
In an interview with "Fox News Sunday" over the weekend, Ann discussed the old donation once again.
"I don't even remember writing the check. I know today I wouldn't write the check. I mean, how do you remember all the checks you've written, you know -- how many years ago was that?" she explained.
Ann Romney told Fox News that what is important now is that both she and her husband are pro-life and actively promoting the pro-life perspective. She also said that she became pro-life at the same time as Mitt after evaluating the issue of embryonic stem cell research.
"So I've had to make a decision, a personal decision, on this, and it came pretty much at the same time with Mitt, with feeling about M.S. and research dollars and everything else, as to the value of life and experimentation on life," Mrs. Romney said.
"And it gave me pause at that time to say whose life is more important, and I had to come out on the side of life when it came for me making a real personal decision about research dollars going to creating new human life for experimentation," she concluded.
Ann Romney suffers from the debilitating disease and her opposition to embryonic stem cell research comes at a time when many disease groups are strongly pushing for it.
Back in May, the former Massachusetts governor said the couple is now firmly pro-life and has given heavily to his state's leading pro-life group.
Mitt also said he would be president and make abortion policy decisions and the views of his wife didn't matter. "Her contributions are for her and not for me, and her positions I do not think are terribly relevant to my campaign," Romney told the Des Moines Register newspaper. "My positions are what I think is relevant for my campaign."
Romney added that he and Ann have donated "generously" to Massachusetts Citizens for Life -- to the tune of $15,000 -- and that Ann is now a leader in that organization.
Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told the Boston Globe at the time that Ann doesn't remember if the check she wrote Planned Parenthood was a donation or the admission fee to an event.
"Since it was so long ago, Ann has no information of the circumstances," he said.
He said the check was written from the couple's joint checking account and signed by Ann Romney and that Mitt had not signed his name to any donation.
The donation came in 1994 as Romney was challenging pro-abortion Sen. Ted Kennedy.
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I agree.
And thats why I complained. If nothing happens fine, all I can do is report.
You know it strikeing how when you “oldtimers” can’t defend your argument you come back with the NOOB BS. Like hanging around FR for a couple of years makes you smart. I’m in my seventh decade on this earth so I suspect you are the NEWBIE little man.
I think it’s reasonable to complain ... and then reasonable to give up on complaining, if it becomes clear that the moderators aren’t going to react.
Life is like that sometimes.
Romulans are famous for their ability to flip from one side of an issue to another...it is not at all surprising to find that the Romneys once supported Planned Parenthood and now conveniently "don't recall" their donations.
BTW, I’m a girl.
And only experience here on FR counts toward a non-noob status.
And I am not an oldtimer, far from it.
Are you out of high school yet!!
Yes I am out of high school.
"So I've had to make a decision, a personal decision, on this, and it came pretty much at the same time with Mitt, with feeling about M.S. and research dollars and everything else, as to the value of life and experimentation on life," Mrs. Romney said.
Ann and Mitt Romney were using her M.S. as a political prop to promote embryonic stem cell research -- before they both coincidentally decided to switch from pro-abortion to pro-life.
Mitt only donated to Massachusetts Citizens for Life after he had officially announced his run for president.
He had never given them any money before.
He got his wife into their leadership -- and then six months after cashing the check, they gave him an award.
If Mitt was "personally pro-life" all these years, how come he never gave money to pro-life groups? And the only record of donation by the Romneys is to Planned Parenthood?
Before Mitt started running for president, he and Ann Romney were using her M.S. to bolster his pro-embryonic stem cell research credentials and bash President Bush for opposing it.
Now he supports some embryonic research and opposes other embryonic research -- and still uses his wife's illness as a political prop to shield himself from criticism.
The image of DEVOUT Mormans giving $150 to Planned Parenthood is disturbing.
Really hard to tell where she and her husband stand. A family of flip-floppers.
Um, I feel fine, thanks. [scratches head]
I’m not a Romney man, but could it be that the money was given before Planned Parenthood revealed their disgusting under side? I don’t know.
Ahh, I have always KNOWN their “disgusting under side”, how could the Romneys be so INNOCENT? I don’t buy that at all.
Maybe they thought it was morally wrong but as a policy decision felt it should be legal, as outlawing the practice might be more problematic.
I just read EEE’s post (#38) and I guess I am wrong. Just tried to give him the benefit of the doubt - and it turned out precisely the way that usually turns out. Whenever I try to be nice in spite of everything, it fails. I don’t like him anyway. There: I said it.
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