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In 1967, then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed a liberal abortion law legalizing the procedure in cases where a woman’s mental as well as physical health was at risk.
The number of abortions in California soared after the bill was passed, and Reagan came to regret singing it, the LA Times reported. By the time he ran for president in 1980, Reagan had declared his support for a constitutional amendment prohibiting all abortions except to save the life of a woman.
During the 1980 campaign, Reagan’s GOP primary opponent, George H.W. Bush, opposed a constitutional amendment restricting abortion. But by the time he ran for president in 1988, then-Vice President Bush said he opposed all abortions unless the mother’s life was endangered.
In 1971 Ted Kennedy wrote “While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized—the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.”
He later changed his mind.
I try to believe that politicians’ position on abortion reflect their beliefs. However I suspect for many (most ?) they articulate positions for their electoral impact.
Reagan was never proabortion Romney always was.
You bring up a bill from 1967, a year when Mitt’s father was running for president as the antiwar candidate, when Mitt was avoiding the draft in France, three years after Mitt and his father had stormed out on Goldwater’s conservatism in protest, three years before Mitt’s mother’s pro abortion senatorial campaign, six years before RoevWade and the great abortion wars, and the Reagan years and the 1990s and the 2000 election, the Bush years, years when Romney was fighting for abortion rights and raising funds for abortion rights and funding and raising funds for democrat candidates that were pro abortion, until finally in preparation for the 2008 campaign to win votes from the GOP base, Mitt at age 59 suddenly becomes pro life.
That bill from 1967 has zero relevance to Mitt Romney’s pro abortion activism and passion during the intense abortion wars during the following 40 years.
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Mitt Romney is STILL in favor of abortion.