Being as this is a two-year old news story, it begs the question—how did Catholic hospitals resolve this situation? Did they go along with the law, or did they force change by shutting down?
Well, you know, Mitt consulted his lawyers.....
Legislators override Mass. governor's veto of emergency contraception bill
BOSTON (AP) - The state legislature voted Thursday to override the governor's veto of a measure that will expand access to emergency contraception by requiring hospital emergency room doctors to offer the medication to rape victims.
The measure, which Gov. Mitt Romney vetoed in July, will also make the medication available without a prescription from pharmacies. A provision that exempted Catholic hospitals was eventually dropped from the legislation.
The Senate voted unanimously 37-0 to override the veto. In the House, the vote was 139-16 to override, far more than the two-thirds needed.
How any Conservative worth their salt could even be considering voting for anyone other than Fred or Duncan Hunter is unbelievable to me. It’s like I’m in the Twilight Zone!
Call it what it is: An ABORTION pill.
“ROMNEY: Flipping With Power Since Before 2005”
An indecisive man doesn’t inspire a country.
Yes, he tried to stop this, but his legal counsel evaluated the new law and determined that legally he had to do this.
Conservatism means we respect the rule of law, even when we don’t like what the law says.
I generally excuse rank-and-file conservatives though for being upset with stuff like this, because I understand how you can be so committed to a cause that you want to ignore the law, especially when the law is a bad law.
It’s why I couldn’t be a judge, because judges have to pledge to uphold the law and the constitution, which means that they have to rule FOR abortion because of the Supreme Court precedent, and I couldn’t bring myself to do that.
But a lot of good pro-life judges are able to do that, probably consoling themselves with the fact that even if they ruled against abortion, they’d simply be overturned by the appeals courts.
Romney is pro-life, and even as Governor ruled in favor of life and against the culture of death.
Even this article noted that, even in 2005, Romney was known for standing up for conservative values, and so this case was seen as an aberration.
Romney had tried to argue that even though the new law removed the exemption for Catholic hospitals, they didn’t explicitly say they were repealling the previous exemption.
His legal counsel told him that was an indefensible position. He may have been wrong — I understand they are still fighting over it. But a conservative must stand for the law, even a liberal law that they opposed and vetoed.
We applaud Bush for vetoing things the democrats pass, but if they overrode his veto, he’d have to implement the law, even if he didn’t like it.
He’s no George Wallace! ;)
Remember, we are fighting a WOT and Huckabee knows nothing about foreign policy.
“emergency contraception to sexual assault victims”
This is not RU486; it is not an abortion. It prevents pregnancy taken within 48 hrs of unprotected sex.
Boo Hoo.