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And all you can do is ignore the fact that Romney won an award from a pro-life group and rudy will never win such an award.

The award is what this Slimes article is about, right? Not health-care plans.

It does the pro-life movement no good to disparage Romney as rudy light in THIS context.

Did you even read it? It's an Associated Press (AP) article and it's about a group of conservative activists (not NY slimes writers) objecting to the award and also complaining about his universal (socialized) health care plan, including a seat for Planned Parenthood, and his recent flip flopping on abortion:

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.