Posted on 12/29/2007 1:05:49 AM PST by Fred
Former governor Mitt Romney's economic development agency granted initial approval to a tax-exempt bond last year for a Planned Parenthood clinic in Worcester that will provide abortions, just two months before he left office and began highlighting his antiabortion position as a presidential candidate.
Asked about the $5 million financial deal yesterday, the Romney campaign said the former governor was not aware it was under consideration when Planned Parenthood won preliminary approval in November 2006.
Romney repeatedly used the power of his office while governor to advance socially conservative positions, including restricting stem cell research, pushing abstinence-only sex education in schools, and vetoing a bill to increase access to emergency contraception in hospitals.
In the case of the abortion clinic funding deal, the Republican candidate's spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney would have attempted to block it - if he had known about it.
"Mitt Romney is prolife," Fehrnstrom said. "He did not know about this loan. It was made by an agency that does not report to the governor. If it did, he would have told them not to do it."
In additon to providing abortion services, the 10,000-square-foot Planned Parenthood clinic planned for Worcester will offer Plan B emergency contraception, also known as the "morning after pill," which also is opposed by antiabortion advocates.
Jeffrey M. Berry, a political science professor at Tufts University, said he was surprised that Romney and his aides did not catch such a politically sensitive financial deal making its way through his economic development agency.
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At least now we have an explanation for what you've been writing on this thread.
I think I'm done now. Some of us have jobs to get to, to pay for that government-controlled privately-funded healthcare which you think Romney isn't for.
Again a lame post. Don’t you people ever have anything substantial to discuss?
C’mon, Buddy K, where’s that catchphrase you loved so much that you used to throw at Conservatives ?
I will vote for Romney if he is the nominee, but he gives me the (slick) willies. As it stands now, in the primary I will vote for Thompson.
How can a Mormon be a liberal/RINO? But then again I don’t understand why Jews support the Demonrat party!
I don't see Romney as a liberal, I see him as a moderate, meaning he is free to shift to either side as political expediency dictates. He's a "good government" type ala Bush 41, who thinks big government can be a good thing if the right people are running it.
LLS
You can’t even speak civility!
Thanks. I believe you are honest. I believe that Romney will be our candidate and I give him my full support. He has everything we need and want in a presidential candidate. All candidates play the same game, Romneys just ups it a few inches higher. He is the real deal. He can also go the distance.
I will support Fred in a heart beat, should he become our leader. No way will I stay home or vote for a democrat.
Congratulations friend of Buddy K, you spelled a complete post correctly. But it makes no sense grammatically.
You get an “F.”
Wait a minute, Buddy K, if you vote for Joe Isuzu Romney, you are voting Democrat.
You really need someone to love you to fill that empty void!
You’re not my type.
“Mitt Romney is prolife,” Fehrnstrom said. “He did not know about this loan. It was made by an agency that does not report to the governor. If it did, he would have told them not to do it.”
Another grasping at straws attempt to discredit a great man. The way anti Romney FReepers leap into bed with liberal media hacks is disgusting and somewhat frightening.
Whatever, have fun getting off on yourself.
Did you miss "Reading 101" at the military academy you attended? Mitt was Gov in 2006 and the was last year.
Fred Thompson is a great man and real Conservative.
Joe Isuzu Romney is a termite, a liar, and a party-destroying liberal RINO.
You are the one saying Mitt was not Gov. in 2006. Why don't you find the exact dates, or are you incapable? FYI Romney did not STEP DOWN, he chose not to run again.
So that makes Mitt responsible for every action of every person who works for the state? Only if you are attacking him! You are attacking him and the whole argument is ignorant.
It is said that over a million unborn babies were killed because Ronald Reagan signed that pro abortion law into effect in California. No doubt that was one of Reagan’s worst nightmares. Yet because Reagan was such a great man, a great leader, and because he admitted he had been wrong and regretted it, good people everywhere were willing to forgive and forget.
With Romney, his fierce enemies are grasping at straws to try and find some trash, some garbage . . . all they can come up with is stuff like this. You would think that on this site, of all the websites, a guy like Romney would get a break. He’s the best candidate of all the Republican candidates.
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