Mitt Romney Didn’t Just Give Planned Parenthood Money, He Gave Them Extra Power (12/30/2011)

RedState.com ^ | December 30th, 2011 | Erick Erickson

[SoConPubbie]

You should be quite familiar by now with the fact that Mitt Romney gave $150.00 to Planned Parenthood in 1994 when claiming he had always been pro-abortion.

You should also know that in 2004, Mitt Romney says he personally converted to the pro-life position. In fact, according to ABC News on June 14, 2007, “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem-cell researcher as the moment that changed his long-held stance of supporting abortion rights to his current ‘pro-life’ position opposing legal abortion. But several actions Romney took mere months after that meeting call into question how deep-seated his conversion truly was.”

What was one of those actions?

Two months after his pro-life conversion, Mitt Romney appointed Matthew Nestor to the bench in Massachusetts. Romney seeming bowed to political pressure making Nestor a judge even after Nestor, according to the Boston Globe as far back as 1994, had campaigned for political office championing his pro-abortion views.

One year after his pro-life conversion, in July of 2005, Mitt Romney vetoed legislation that would expand the use of the morning after pill arguing that it would contribute to abortions. But just three months later Mitt Romney slid back and signed a bill that expanded state subsidized access to the morning after pill.

Writing in the Boston Globe on October 15, 2005, Stephanie Ebbert noted

Governor Mitt Romney has signed a bill that could expand the number of people who get family-planning services, including the morning-after pill, confusing some abortion and contraception foes who had been heartened by his earlier veto of an emergency contraception bill. … The services include the distribution of condoms, abortion counseling, and the distribution of emergency contraception, or morning after pills, by prescription …

But that’s nothing. Two whole years after the pro-life view had settled into Mitt Romney’s conscience and a year after Mitt Romney had vetoed legislation expanding access to the morning after pill, he expanded access to abortion and gave Planned Parenthood new rights under state law. Yes, that Planned Parenthood.

Mitt Romney is really proud of Romneycare. He champions it as a great healthcare reform for Massachusetts. At one point he claimed it could be a model for the nation, though he now denies that.

According to States News Service on October 2, 2006,

“The following information was released by the Massachusetts Office of the Governor: Governor Mitt Romney today officially launched Commonwealth Care, an innovative health insurance product that will allow thousands of uninsured Massachusetts residents to purchase private health insurance products at affordable rates. Commonwealth Care is a key component of the state’s landmark healthcare reform law approved by the Governor in April. ‘We are now on the road to getting everyone health insurance in Massachusetts,’ said Governor Romney. … ‘Today, we celebrate a great beginning.’

Romney loves to take credit for it.

The law, in addition to providing healthcare coverage for the uninsured and forcing everyone to have insurance, expanded abortion services in the State of Massachusetts. It also required that one member of the MassHealth Payment Policy Board be appointed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.

From Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006:

SECTION 3. Chapter 6A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 16I the following 6 sections: . . . Section 16M. (a) There shall be a MassHealth payment policy advisory board. The board shall consist of the secretary of health and human services or his designee, who shall serve as chair, the commissioner of health care financing and policy, and 12 other members: … 1 member appointed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts … (Massachusetts General Court Website, www.mass.gov, Accessed 2/5/07)

In 2007, Mitt Romney was still denying his healthcare plan did this.

QUESTION: “I noticed some of the conservative groups back in Massachusetts, they complain about there’s a Planned Parenthood rep mandate to be on the planning board for the health care plan. Is that something you just had to deal with in negotiating with the legislature?”

ROMNEY: “It’s certainly not something that was in my bill.”

(Eric Krol, “Full Text Of Romney Interview,” [Arlington Heights, IL] Daily Herald, 6/17/07)

Except it was. Apparently, like with Obamacare, you had to pass the bill to find out what was in it, but once passed, Romney never read it.

[SoConPubbie]

And the Un-Masking of Mitt Romney, the lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal, continues . . . "If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Sacajaweau]

Romney and the party have to get together and put out a platform...that is NOT liberal...or we will lose. People want some morality and common sense back in the White House and the Congress.

[SoConPubbie]

Romney and the party have to get together and put out a platform...that is NOT liberal...or we will lose. People want some morality and common sense back in the White House and the Congress.

With Romney you've already lost.

[cripplecreek]

Romney and the party have to get together and put out a platform...that is NOT liberal...or we will lose.

This race is already over but the platform is pretty much meaningless. After all, they wrote up a strong party platform right before the convention last time but McCain was still the nominee who stood in opposition to most of the platform.

[Diogenesis]

Since Romney is evolving to be a little tin-god on
his own planet, so he is convinced
(along with his Legion on their knees)
that he can do whatever he wants.

LIE.
Be INELIGIBLE.
BIG DIG COVERUP.
IMPOSE OBAMACARE in Mass.
IMPOSE ROMNEY-MARRIAGE for the NYTimes.
PUT IN DNC Judges
Help the DNC.
LIE. LIE.
LIE. and CHEAT (name AT LEAST
three states Romney cheated in in 2012?)

[Diogenesis]

If Romney is on the ticket, WE WRITE IN

Gov. Palin/Jim Robinson 2012.

[Be Free]

Look, I fully agree that Romney is not my first choice - Newt is. Not my second choice either - that would’ve been Cain or maybe Perry. But at some point we need to realize that Romney is going to be the nominee, like it or not. The battle in November is going to be Obama or Romney. As imperfect as that is, it is a no-brainer choice.

So we can gnash our teeth, stomp our feet, pound our fists, or talk about write-in campaigns. All that does is improve the chances for 4 more years of Obama, which is unacceptable, and would be intolerable.

So at what point to we stop burning down our own house and focus on the real objective of un-seating Obama?

[Josh Painter]

Just a reminder: The “lesser of the evils” is, by definition, evil.

[chris37]

No thank you.

I’m not interested in a second Obama term.

[cripplecreek]

So at what point to we stop burning down our own house and focus on the real objective of un-seating Obama?

If you don't have the courage to acknowledge your own house has become a sewer, you don't have much chance of unseating Obama anyway.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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2012-04-26


Good morning ...


As I recall, you're a Rick Santorum supporter at Free Republic ...

The last couple of weeks have been "dark" for America, politically speaking ...

Both Santorum and Gingrich have suspended their campaigns ...



There is a "distinct" possibility that both men desire to pull an "upset win" at the Tampa Convention ... perhaps even as a team ...

Regardless ...



The stealth "O-Romney Botts" have magically (like Mormon ceremonial underwear) re-appeared at Free Republic ...

asking all of us to behave like that "filthy" traitor Herman Cain ... and just "roll-over" and accept the Soviet-style surrender requested of us by the GOP E-RINO clubbies ...



Anyway ... to my point (alas) ...

"Thank You" ... and to VINL ... and the "valient" others for STILL posting the TRUTH about that evil anti-Christian O-Romney ...

DO NOT SURENDER !!!



Be encouraged ... Mitt O-Romney WILL NOT GET the 2012 GOP Nomination ...

And when it's all said and done ...

Men like You ... "SoConPubbie" and "VinL" ...

will be reognized for the "journalistic heroes" that you are ...



"Strength and Honor" ...

And as Newt Gingrich says: "Victory or Death" ...



Patton-at-Bastogne



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[cripplecreek]

I’ll probably vote for Virgil Goode, its no more a wasted vote than the denial junkies who think Romney has a shot.

[from occupied ga]

So what’s your alternative?

[Student0165]

No way in hell I will vote for Romney. NO way.

[from occupied ga]

Mitt O-Romney WILL NOT GET the 2012 GOP Nomination ...

" The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. " H. L. Mencken

I'd say you were insane, but why restate the obvious.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Ah, Redstate. Where the moderate conservatives live.

Telling the truth about Mutt Romney is frowned upon there. Note how old this article is.

[arderkrag]

[TheOldLady]

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[SoConPubbie]

So what’s your alternative?

If we don't have a brokered convention, then it will be Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.

And before you state your Party over Principle talking points, read the quote below from Alexander Hamilton.

He's an actual conservative with a conservative record. I can trust him and he does not have a history or record of LYING.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[SoConPubbie]

So we can gnash our teeth, stomp our feet, pound our fists, or talk about write-in campaigns. All that does is improve the chances for 4 more years of Obama, which is unacceptable, and would be intolerable.

And you can stick your fingers in your ears and cover your eyes to hide from the record of that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney all day long, but it's not going to change the fact that the only thing inevitable about Mitt Romney is that he is the only candidate BECAUSE OF his lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal record that GUARANTEES Obama's re-election.

Why do you think the media has treated him with kid's gloves up to this point?

Why do you think George Soros stated he wanted Romney as the GOP candidate because his record was so like Obama's?

The media and Obama would like nothing else to campaign against a candidate like Romney who has had the same positions on so many issues as Obama.