Gov. Reagan was never pro-abortion. He signed legislation permitting women to petition boards of physicians at hospitals to receive therapeutic abortions in cases where continued pregnancy would “gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother,” and for rape or incest. He believed that such boards of physicians would discern between true medical emergencies and other cases.
The legislation was abused to permit near-abortion on demand. That hadn't been his intention when he signed the bill, and he regretted signing the bill when he saw how it was abused.
The fact is, there aren't many “pro-lifers” today who would be much less pro-abortion than what was ostensibly allowed under this law.
Even so, Gov. Reagan agonized for a long time before signing the legislation - he was hardly all gung-ho about it. Here's an excerpt from wiki about it:
“Reagan had been in office for only four months when he signed the bill, and stated that had he been more experienced as governor, it would not have been signed. After he recognized what he called the ‘consequences’ of the bill, he announced that he was pro-life.[10] He maintained that position later in his political career, writing extensively about abortion.[11]”
It is a travesty and a falsehood to say that even at this point that Gov. Reagan “support[ed] abortion.”
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He signed the bill. stop the lies,
He knew politics was about compromise if you wanted to further your own agenda.
ABO reduces many of its advocates into positions of having to lie ("Reagan was once pro-abortion") and deceive ("A vote for anyone but Romney is a vote for Obama") in order to persuade (bully) people into joining them. That is what Romney requires of those who would support him, even unwillingly.
It is a major warning flag that ABO is wrong.