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I like Michele Bachmann, but her attack on Newt Gingrich on this issue is a bit misleading.

Cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood would have meant an automatic veto by Bill Clinton, even assuming the Dems didn’t block the funding cut-off in the Senate, which they probably would have done. Look what happened when the current Congress tried to cut off Planned Parenthood funding. Are all the Republicans in the House therefore RINOs? No, of course not.

Overall, Newt compiled a solidly pro-life record in Congress. Just look at how pro-life and pro-abortion groups rated him:

1997-1998 National Right to Life Committee - 100%
1997 National Right to Life Committee - 100%
1996 National Right to Life Committee - 100%
1993-1996 Planned Parenthood - 0%
1997 NARAL Pro-Choice America - 0%

There are fundamental differences between Romneycare and Obamacare. Romneycare included some deregulation, did not come with a tax hike, did not raid other department/program budgets, and encouraged health savings accounts. Obamacare increases regulation, comes with a huge tax hike, raids huge chunks of money from Medicare, and discourages health savings accounts.

http://www.aboutmittromney.com/healthcare.htm#diffs

Beyond this, Romney has emphatically promised (1) to issue waivers to all states to allow them to opt out of Obamacare, and (2) to push for the outright repeal of Obamacare via Congressional legislation. I believe Romney would keep these promises. So do Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter.

But the kind of individual mandate that Gingrich supports is very different from the one in Obamacare. It’s based on vouchers and would encourage health savings accounts and competition.