Posted on 06/18/2011 1:25:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
My Pro-Life Pledge June 18, 2011
By Mitt Romney
I am pro-life and believe that abortion should be limited to only instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
I support the reversal of Roe v. Wade, because it is bad law and bad medicine. Roe was a misguided ruling that was a result of a small group of activist federal judges legislating from the bench.
I support the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions. And as president, I will support efforts to prohibit federal funding for any organization like Planned Parenthood, which primarily performs abortions or offers abortion-related services.
I will reinstate the Mexico City Policy to ensure that nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from America refrain from performing or promoting abortion services, as a method of family planning, in other countries. This includes ending American funding for any United Nations or other foreign assistance program that promotes or performs abortions on women around the world.
I will advocate for and support a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.
And perhaps most importantly, I will only appoint judges who adhere to the Constitution and the laws as they are written, not as they want them to be written.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I still don’t like him, and hope I won’t have to vote for him.
Not good enough. No child has any say in the manner of its conception; therefore, incest and rape are no more valid than any other excuse for abortion. As for “saving the life of the mother”, I’ve posted before that of the dozens of obstetricians and L&D nurses I’ve represented in 25 years as an attorney, not a single one has been able to relate a single instance where abortion was necessary to save the pregnant woman’s life. Early delivery, yes - killing the child in utero, never.
Sorry, Mitt.
Sorry, but any Man or Woman, for that matter, who thinks it is OK to punish the child for the sins of the Father even if it is Rape or Incest, is not fit to lead.
They need to go back to church and basic logic, ethics, and morality and find out what the true meaning of “Thous shalt not kill” means.
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