Posted on 05/10/2007 9:45:34 PM PDT by jdm
AGAWAM, Mass. (AP) -- Conservative activists criticized Mitt Romney over his abortion record Thursday as the Republican presidential contender received an award from an anti-abortion group that also used to complain about his support for abortion rights.
A coalition including the leaders of the Pro-Life Federation, the Michigan Conservative Union and Massachusetts Resistance was especially critical of the revelation that Romney's wife, Ann, had donated $150 to Planned Parenthood during her husband's 1994 U.S. Senate campaign.
The group also complained because a universal health care bill Romney signed into law while Massachusetts governor includes a seat for Planned Parenthood -- which includes abortion among its family planning services -- on a payment policy board.
''His commitment to the pro-life cause has been called into question because of his frequently changing position on the issue of abortion and his signing into law a bill that provides taxpayer-funded abortion in Massachusetts,'' the group said in a statement.
In remarks to over 600 people at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life Mother's Day Dinner, Romney conceded his conversion. While personally opposing abortion, he supported abortion rights as recently as two-and-a-half years ago. Now he not only opposes abortion rights personally but calls for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationally.
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Stuff it, jerk.
I can see why Romney would win a pro-life award.
He gave the group $15,000 a few months ago and got his wife into its leadership.
Who says you can't buy love?
Tell it like it is, Jim!
Which is worse? Someone who shares an apartment with homosexuals or someone who forces a private adoption agency to either hand children over to homosexuals or close its doors?
We all know the answer, but quite a few people aren't copping to it.
You noticed that, too.
You’re a sharp guy, JohnnyZ.
And he won an award from a pro-life group this week.
With more to come I am certain.
You’ll have additional chances to complain about pro-life groups giving him awards in the future. What you won’t see is anybody giving rudy such an award. But go on declaring Romney to be rudystout all you like in the meantime.
Romney’s Dept. of Social Services honors homosexual “married” couple as adoptive “Parents of the Year”
The Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS), run by the Romney administration, honored a homosexual “married” couple (two men) as their adoptive “Parents of the Year” for 2006. The DSS has gained a reputation for being aggressively pro-homosexual over recent years. This incident sparked outrage across the country, but to our knowledge no policies or personnel at DSS were changed as a result.
- Waltham Daily News Tribune, 8/4/2006
LOL. Ok, that explains the award.
Romney opposed federal legislation that would stop public schools from promoting homosexuality
When Romney was running against Sen. Ted Kennedy, Bay Windows asked him how he would have voted on an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would ban federal funds from public schools which are “encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.” He answered:
“I would have opposed that amendment. I don’t think the federal government has any business dictating to local school boards what their curriculum or practices should be. I think that’s a dangerous precedent in general. I would have opposed that. It also grossly misunderstands the gay community by insinuating that there’s an attempt to proselytize a gay lifestyle on the part of the gay community. I think it’s wrong-headed and unfortunate and hurts the party by being identified with the Republican party.”
- Bay Windows, 8/25/1994
Romney appointed prominent homosexuals to key positions in his administration
“Romney also continues [former Governor] Weld’s tradition of appointing openly gay people to key positions in his administration. One of his first cabinet appointments was Daniel Grabauskas, who Romney chose to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. The new governor’s transition team also included several openly gay people, including Grabauskas, former lieutenant governor candidate and current president of the National Log Cabin Republicans Patrick Guerriero and former Mass. Log Cabin president Mark Goshko. Other gay Romney appointees include John Wagner, commissioner of the state welfare department, Mitchell Adams, executive director of the Massachusetts Technology collaborative and Jonathan Spampinato, a member of Romney’s Diversity and Equality Opportunity Council.”
- Bay Windows, 3/3/2005
(Note: These appointees aren’t just “gay” people, they’re committed homosexual activists. Grabauskas, for example, had previously served as head of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles where he instituted a policy of placing a sex-change check-off box on drivers license renewal forms.)
Drivers license renewal form
Romney appointed prominent homosexual activists and Democrats as judges
“Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents — including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found. Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show. In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters, and 14 registered Democrats.”
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Current Events - FReeper style:
(5/3) Which GOP presidential hopeful did the best job of elevating his campaign’s chances in tonight’s debate?
Mitt Romney
34.5%
Ron Paul
26.7%
Duncan Hunter
17.4%
Rudy Giuliani
8.0%
Tom Tancredo
4.2%
Mike Huckabee
2.3%
John McCain
2.3%
Tommy Thompson
1.9%
Sam Brownback
1.3%
Jim Gilmore
1.3%
[ Details · Polls ]
Gosh. All those Romniacs that have been trying to mug me on all those other threads are strangely silent on this one. Just can’t figure it out...
;-)
Well, we’ve got a lot of educating to do then, eh?
“Stuff it , jerk” -——Quite a rhetorician, ain’t ya?
Quite a hater of conservatives who actually stand for something, ain’t ya.
Commentary from NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez
The latest he’s-not-really-pro-life thread focuses on Romney’s health-care plan. The Commonwealth Care insurance policy coming out of it covers abortions. But as I understand it, as set up, it was to mirror the state Medicaid program…which covered abortions. That’s bad, but strikes me as nothing new or surprising. We already knew that Romney ran for governor saying he wouldn’t change the abortion laws of the state. When he set up his health-care plan, a) he would have been breaking a pledge if he made it a point to make sure the plan didn’t cover abortions; b) can you imagine the whole thing passing if he did? Could he have vetoed it? As I understand it he would have lost the plan’s Quality and Cost Council with it. And he also would have then changed a state law in regard to abortion, which he said he wouldn’t…
He vetoed the bill providing state funding for human embryonic stem cell research
He vetoed a bill that provided for the “morning after pill” without a prescription because it is an abortifacient and would have been available to minors without parental notification and consent
He vetoed legislation which would have redefined Massachusetts longstanding definition of the beginning of human life from fertilization to implantation
He supported parental notification laws and opposed efforts to weaken parental involvement
He fought to promote abstinence education in public school classrooms with a program offered by faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students.
In 2002, he was to the right of Shannon O’Brien who wanted to do lower the age of parental consent.
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