Posted on 02/02/2012 9:37:42 PM PST by NKP_Vet
A defining moment in Mitt Romney's post-pro-life-conversion political career came in his third year as governor of Massachusetts, when he decided Catholic hospitals would be required under his interpretation of a new state law to give rape victims a drug that can induce abortions.
Romney announced this decision -- saying it was the "right thing for hospitals" to do -- just two days after he had taken the opposite position.
The story begins in 1975, when Massachusetts enacted a law that said, "No privately controlled hospital .. shall be required to permit any patient to have an abortion ... or to furnish contraceptive devices or information to such patient ... when said services or referrals are contrary to the religious or moral principles of said hospital ... ."
Twenty-seven years later, when Romney was running for governor, he filled out a questionnaire for NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. It said: "Emergency contraception does not cause abortion. Rather, it prevents pregnancy from occurring. Will you support efforts to increase access to emergency contraception?"
Romney said: "Yes."
The next year, the Massachusetts legislature considered an "emergency contraception" mandate. It would have allowed pharmacists to sell Plan B -- an abortifacient -- without a prescription and without parental consent. It also would have required all hospitals to inform rape victims of the availability of such "emergency contraceptives" and provide them to the rape victim if she wanted them even when they would cause an abortion.
Maria Parker of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the public policy organization of the state's Catholic bishops, explained in testimony to the state legislature why Catholic hospitals could not do this"
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I’d vote for someone who holds mainstream Judeo-Christian values. Romney wasn’t getting my vote before I researched Mormonism, and while it wasn’t the deciding factor for me, it certainly didn’t change my mind.
“Pregnancy is not a disease......”
Thanks, I should have added all of that but was too freekin’ mad and not completing my thoughts.
Its OK to abort babies, cause their per-existing souls from the planet Kolob will just find another body. No problem.
Well a good number of the Founding Fathers were Deist. Want butcherd Bible? Look at the one Thomas Jefferson edited. But Mormon is not why I will not vote for Romney under any circumstance. His record as an elected leader is why I will never vote for him under any circumstances. But I would vote for another Thomas Jefferson though.
But I’m sure some people will still get offended whenever I call him Obamney...
PING!
Romneyism=Obamaism With a Human Face
Inform your friends of this, folks!
It’s an electoral desert on our side. I’ll swear, the Pubbies are going to hand the election to Obama.
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