Posted on 02/13/2012 3:13:19 PM PST by JediJones
“I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice...I changed my position.”
[Romney] answered a Planned Parenthood questionnaire by saying he backed “state funding of abortion services.”
“It was made clear to him by advisers early on in his gubernatorial race that he had to be pro-choice...”
“...my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others...And you will not see me wavering on that.”
Mr. Romney promised [Naral Pro-Choice America] to maintain the status quo...he surprised its leaders by saying he could be a “good voice” and the most effective national Republican leader on abortion....
“I thought, ‘That’s interesting. He’s running for governor, and he’s trying to convince us to get behind him because of the role he is going to play on the national stage,’” “We left the meeting feeling pretty good.”
“My political philosophy is pro-life,” he told National Review [in 2005]...his top strategist at the time, Mike Murphy, [said] Mr. Romney had been “a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly.”
...over whether [hospitals with] religious affiliations, should be required to offer the morning-after pill to rape victims.... At first, Mr. Romney supported a religious exemption. But on the advice of his legal counsel, he later reversed himself.
...“He said then that he believed ‘in his heart of hearts’ that receiving these contraceptives — free of charge — trumped employees’ religious consciences,” Mr. Santorum wrote.... “Now, a few years later and running for president, his heart is strategically aligned with religious voters opposing this federal mandate.”
...the president of the Susan B. Anthony List...pointed out that Mr. Romney was the only Republican running for president who had not signed her group’s “pro-life presidential leadership pledge”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Romney is saying he has never said he was pro-choice. I wonder who that guy was that said he was more pro-choice than Senator Kennedy. I must have been mistaken, I really thought it was Romney.
“...my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others...And you will not see me wavering on that.”
That is without a doubt the most cowardly position one can assume on this issue. Someone needs to inform Flip that the protection of innocent human life is not a belief nor a matter of individual determination, but rather a principle upon which western civilization is based.
He was and is very much pro-abortion, now he is scared to say so.
Until he gets the nomination.
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