Posted on 08/26/2007 2:54:35 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday in an interview with Nevada television station KLAS said that if elected president he would allow individual states to keep abortion legal, the Washington Post reports.
Romney earlier this month in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos said he supports a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion nationwide. According to the Post, the "two very different statements" reflect a "challenge" for Romney as he attempts to be a "champion of the antiabortion movement".
In an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, Romney said that giving states control to "fashion their own laws with regard to abortion" should be the "next step" in the abortion debate. Top Romney advisers on Tuesday said the governor supports a two-tiered process in which states first would obtain authority to regulate abortion after Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans -- is overturned. The second step would be a constitutional amendment that bans most abortions nationwide.
James Bopp -- an attorney who has represented antiabortion groups and a top Romney adviser on abortion -- said, "There's no flip-flopping. There's no contradiction. There's simply step one and step two." Jon Ralston, a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun who interviewed Romney for KLAS, said he believes Romney's "moral positions conflict" with his "states'-rights opinions," adding, "I don't see how you can be antiabortion, be in favor of a constitutional amendment and be in favor of states' rights". [click to read whole article]
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Welcome you migth as well be an Xer you act like one!:)
No I am not a Mormon Xer. My mother took her 5 children (after she was abandoned by her husband) and did leave a strange religion and I see so many similarities in people who have left Mormonism and my mother.
Leaving the religion of one’s birth isn’t easy. It took years for her family to accept her leaving and to finally believe she isn’t doomed! I know of no one who has a stronger faith than my mom. But her faith is in God, not man.
I have huge issues with man-made rules in religion.
And no, I’m not telling what religion. You would all laugh at me.:)
I try not to paint with a broad brush and assign motives and things because of my life experiences and I have had my own traumas in life too.
I know I been blessed because when things got to a place I could not understand I always had Lord to ask and help me understand or to give me peace of mind.
Heavenly Father being of male gender and his also his Son and servants being male must make a lot of women resentful!
Yet I have found the man who truly walks with God to be the most comforting to be around.
There are men who profess God and than try to force their concepts on others to me they are so wrap up in the letter of the Law they, the Spirit of the Lord withdrew.
How DARE you post the blessed JST text and then MOCK it!
You do NOT have in mind the things of a god, but yer own, chopped up and badly written translations of men!
A curse upon BOTH yer houses!!
—MormonDude(Miffed)
And this pertains to Mitt's promise to legalize abortion, HOW?
boy named sue placemarker
Elsie,
I believe that’s “Pat”
ampu
Yup; that’s what it says; when you let your cursor linger on the picture a while...
‘Pat’ placemarker
Ain't that a coincidence? That's the way you feel about Romney, too!
smithee,
I don’t need more facts about Romney. The ones I have
convince me I don’t want the man.
ampu
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