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Don't forget, too, that Ronald Reagan said he had no opinion on abortion one way or another when he became governor. He was 56 years old.
----->>Think about it. This is Ronald Reagan quoted above --- in his late 60's -- writing that he hadn't formed an opinion one way or another on abortion eight years earlier UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION ON IT WHEN IN OFFICE - when the issue of life was squarely placed before him ----> then it mattered.

That sounds VERY much like what happened to Romney.

If Rommey had been living in a cave the last thirty years the comparison might make sense. Comparing Rommey on abortion in 2005 with Reagan on abortion in 1968 as if the thirty plus years abortion war had never happened is not a comparison that is connected to reality. Even back then, Reagan did not disassemble on the subject or his history concerning it with convoluted, contradictory and tortured equivocations the way Rommey is doing right now, million upon millions of slaughtered human beings later.

Cordially,

I don't agree at all. I know, personally, several very busy, high-flying business execs who consider themselves staunch conservatives who never even think about the abortion issue because it does not concern them, their family or their friends. It does not enter into their daily lives. It does not cross their desk. While they may be personally pro-life or opposed to abortion, they wouldn't think of infringing on another person's personal business or pre-judging a woman in that situation in a million years. That makes them "effectively" pro-choice.

However, if one of these execs suddenly became a politician and was elected and had bills crossing their desk that had the effect of saving or taking lives --- then their eyes might be pried wide open by the awesome responsibility placed in their hands on an issue they gave very minimal thought up until that moment.

I don't find it hard to understand at all. There is a big difference between career politicians who deal with legislation involving these life and death issues, life-long activists whose lives revolve around this issue and business execs completely removed from the situation who decide to serve their country.