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Reagan signed a law that allowed for abortion in VERY LIMITED circumstances. As soon as he saw the carnage that came from adjudicated abortion, he immediately renounced all abortion.

Obviously, it didn't. Any opening to the abortion mills is one they'll drive a fleet of trucks through. Reagan had similar problems on effective border/illegals legislation.

Reagan "immediately renounced all abortion" after thinking about it for seven years, even for two years after Roe which was based in part on Reagan's own abortion bill. Please produce any proof to the contrary, other than the single unverifiable account of his biographer.

For a politician, being pro-life means being publicly pro-life and particularly being pro-life on legislation and in appointing judges.

Romney's record as governor is actually more anti-abortion than Reagan's was as governor. There is no denying it. At it's simplest: Romney never signed any expansion of abortion rights that affected national abortion rights policy. Reagan did.

Now, whether you find Romney sincere or Romney's record convincing or think Romney will appoint the last justice we need on the Court, you'll have to decide for yourself.

I think we should really be comparing Romney (and others) to Bush. Bush has been far more pro-life than Reagan was, both as governor and as president. Bush has, so far, done more with his reliable Court appointments than either Reagan or Bush Senior.

Maybe it's W. who should be the pro-life gold standard.

Mitt Romney has used his millions to buy up a multitude of political hacks across the fruited plain.

Any conservative with their eyes wide open can easily see two things:

A) FR has been invaded by them.

B) They’re distorting Mitt Romney’s own words and record to try and deceive conservatives.

Dear George W. Bush,

Sorry, I don’t buy your analysis of Mr. Reagan.

Apparently, Mr. Reagan was very concerned, even before he signed the 1967 legislation, about not loosening the laws too much. The original legislation as written by the legislature permitted abortion in cases of fetal abnormality.

Mr. Reagan wouldn’t sign the bill with that exception, because he felt it went too far. It was removed to get his signature.

That makes his later assertions very believable that he was horrified by the misinterpretation of the health exception within a year of the bill’s passage.

As for Mr. Romney, if he’d stop trying to put himself in a better light by lying about Mr. Reagan, it’d do wonders for his credibility.

Right now, he appears to be little more than an opportunistic lying huckster.

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“Romney’s record as governor is actually more anti-abortion than Reagan’s was as governor. There is no denying it. “

I believe that anti-Romney types will continue to deny that. I’ve given up trying to talk sense on this point. The Cult of Saint Gipper admits of no error on their sainted hero, even as Gov.

“Maybe it’s W. who should be the pro-life gold standard.”

Good point, especially on Judges. Alito and Roberts are holding up much better than Kennedy and O’Connor.

As usual, an exellent post, GWB.

We were just discussing this tonight, how Bush did more for pro-life than Reagan, and seemingly this is also true in his appointment of the justices, though I believe he (and we) may have had the benefit of Reagan's mistakes, which President Reagan did not have.

Sincere, or not sincere, Romney as president, simply cannot flop back in a leftward direction, without losing effectiveness as a leader, and without we conservatives holding his feet to the fire, as we did most effectively after President Bush nominated Harriet Miers and on other occasions.