JONRICK: “What do we expect from a liberal Massachusetts legislature...”
Did the Mass Legislature force Romney to sign the bill into law?
Did they force him to announce that Catholic hospitals were exempt earlier in the week?
Did they force him to embarrass himself later in the week by doing yet another 180?
Senator Susan C. Fargo of Lincoln, who cochairs the Legislature’s Public Health Committee, said: ‘’Mitt Romney’s justification for this flip-flop is nothing but a cowardly smoke screen. His real motivation is his political ambition.”
The “flip-flop” in this case was his vote of legislation giving access to the morning after pill. This veto was a change to a questionnaire that abortion rights groups gave to the gubernatorial candidates in 2002, Romney answered yes to the question, ‘’Will you support efforts to increase access to emergency contraception?”
Romney’s opposition to the bill was given with these words: ‘’I do support expansion of emergency contraception; I have no problem with emergency contraception,” he told reporters in his office. ‘’This product not only does that, but in some cases terminates life after conception. In that case, it ceases to be an emergency contraception bill and becomes an emergency abortion bill.”
The Massachusetts Legislature later overturned Romney’s veto. In fact the battle that ensued over this one issue went back and forth like a ping pong game. It is hard to follow all of its pongs. And it is easy to find something Romney did in the battle that appears pro choice. You would be looking at the trees and not seeing the forest.
I is my belief that you can be as anti abortion as Jesus Christ, but when you deal with the Left in their dirty politics, they will rig the game so it looks like you slept with the devil. When it comes to Right to Life, I believe Dr. John Willke, who said, ““Unlike other candidates who only speak to the importance of confronting the major social issues of the day, Governor Romney has a record of action in defending life. Every decision he made as Governor was on the side of life. I know he will be the strong pro-life President we need in the White House. Governor Romney is the only candidate who can lead our pro-life and pro-family conservative movement to victory in 2008.”