Romney: Catholic hospitals not exempt from offering emergency contraception By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press writer

BOSTON -- Facing opposition from women, the Democratic Party and even his own running mate, Gov. Mitt Romney abandoned plans yesterday to exempt religious and other private hospitals from a new law requiring them to dispense emergency contraception to rape victims.

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Mitt Romney supports AWB and Brady Bill

http://www.operationrino.com/web/newsperm.608

Governor Mitt Romney has signed into law a permanent assault weapons ban that he says will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on these guns.

''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one," Romney wrote in answer to a NARAL questionnaire during the [2002] campaign. ''Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/03/clarity_sought_on_romneys_abortion_stance/

Summary of Romney abortion stances
http://romneyisafraud.blogspot.com/2005/02/dime-dropper-willard-mitt-went-to.html

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it."
"Regardless of one's beliefs about choice, you would hope it would be safe and legal,"

Tovia Smith of Boston University radio station WBUR asked: "Mr. Romney, you say you're a moderate on social issues. One who will defend abortion rights, equal rights for women, for blacks, and for gays. In fact you say you will do more to promote gay rights than Senator Kennedy. You also sit on the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, which has an exclusionary policy banning gay members. Do you support that policy, and if not have you ever done anything as a board member to oppose it?"

"...I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation."
http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/06_June/061802_mn_romney.shtml

"The Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, next month will be the first to open its arms to the gay community. Organisers of the 2002 Winter Olympics have actively gone out to get the gay community involved."
http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/06_June/061802_mn_romney.shtml

he said he would support domestic partnership benefits, at one point saying they would become a "hallmark of my leadership as governor." ... Romney has broader goals in mind, and will use this opportunity to establish further rights for gay couples, Fehrnstrom said. "At the end of the day, same-sex couples will end up with more rights and benefits than they previously enjoyed," he said.
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525039435,00.html

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