“I’m listening to a youtube video right now, and I see Mr. Romney saying that he will protect a woman’s “right” to choose.”
He said that because that’s what the law stated in Massachusetts. Did you want him to take a position that was against the law, that was illegal? refer to post #109
you wont find him claiming that he is pro choice or that abortion is a constitutional right, which I believe you claimed he had done on an earlier post.
"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." - Mitt Romney
Yes, but you never heard him expressing disagreement with the law or court decisions that protect a woman's false "right" to kill her unborn child until very recently. Look, Romney may have had some sort of pro-life conversion a few years back, but don't believe that conservatives are stupid enough to believe that he's been pro-life all along. I know you support him, and that's fine. But stop trying to whitewash his pro-choice record and statements. He's a good man and I believe that some of his pro-life conversion is sincere. But his past is his past and you shouldn't try to overcome his weaknesses on core issues by lying about his positions, past or present.
Actually, he stated that the reason behind his defense of abortion on demand is that he’d believed that abortion should be legal since at least 1970.
That wasn't about upholding the laws as they generally existed at the time. Rather, it was about changing wholesale most of the abortion laws in the United States. That makes him a pro-abort, plain and simple.
Unless he was lying in 1994 about his support for abortion "rights" in 1970.
He specifically states in the video that he believed in a woman’s “right to choose.” In 2002, he affirmed the substance of Roe. In that the substance of Roe was that there is a constitutional “right” to abortion, it’s dissembling to say other than that he supported a constitutional “right” to abortion.
That so many romneybots try this method of evasion and deception is telling.
As for whether he ever said he was “pro-choice,” who really gives a damn? In 1994, he said he'd been for legal abortion since at least 1970! Folks who believe that abortion should be legal, who vow to uphold the “right” to abortion are pro-aborts. They can call themselves whatever they want, but it doesn’t make them other than what they are.
But in any case, this is from the article of this thread:
“And when I ran for office, I said I’d protect the law as it was, which is effectively a pro-choice position,’
Romney explained.”
Although he can’t bear to admit the ugly truth about himself by saying here, “I was a pro-abort,” he says that his position was the “pro-choice” position. He even notes that:
”And I said I was wrong and changed my mind and said I’m pro-life.”
If he is now pro-life, and he’s changed, and he was wrong before, what was he before?
His defenders seem to have the same problem with the truth that he does.
He’d do a lot better with actual pro-lifers if he just said, “Hey, I was a pro-abort. I was wrong. Now I’m pro-life.”
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