"pro life..." depended on when and where you talked to the Mythster.
He “reassured” Massachusetts voters that he was pro-abortion to the core both in campaign runs in 1994 and 2002. We all know about his late 2004 so-called pro-life “conversion,” but lots of folks don't realize he was also massaging fellow Utah Mormons in 2001 when he wrote a letter-to-the editor that he wasn't really “pro-choice," after all: "I do not wish to be labeled pro-choice." (Mitt Romney, Letter to the Editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/01)
Fast-forward then to the 2007 campaign trail. He claimed all of his actions as MA guv were “pro-life” -- yet on April 12, 2006, he signed his "Commonwealth Care" into existence, thereby expanding abortion access/taxpayer funded abortions for women--including almost 2% of the females of his state who earn $75,000 or more. (Wait a minute, I thought he told us post-'06 that ALL of his actions were "pro-life?"). Also, not only this, but as governor, Romney could exercise veto power to portions of Commonwealth Care. Did Romney exercise this power? (Yes, he vetoed Sections 5, 27, 29, 47, 112, 113, 134 & 137). What prominent section dealing with Planned Parenthood as part of the "payment policy advisory board" did Romney choose NOT to veto? (Section 3) That section mandates that one member of MassHealth Payment Policy Board must be appointed by Planned Parenthood League of MA. (See chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, section 3 for details).
Look at how he tried to manipulate voters just in the first several weeks of his '07 campaign – based upon what he was telling South Carolina voters: On January 29, 2007 during a visit to South Carolina, Romney stated: “Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice." (Bruce Smith, "Romney Campaigns in SC with Sen. DeMint," The Associated Press, 1/29/07) = OK how could "every action I've taken as the governor that relates to the sanctity of human life..." AND this statement BOTH be true?
On another South Carolina campaign stop has Romney uttering that "I was always for life”: "I am firmly pro-life… I was always for life." (Jim Davenport, "Romney Affirms Opposition to Abortion," The Associated Press, 2/9/2007) = Oh, of course as the above shows, he's always been pro-life!
By August '07 he was singing more off-kilter tunes on the trail: "I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice." Source: 2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate 8/5/2007 = OK...looking at the 1994 & 2002 campaigns, how could he say he "never said" he was "pro-choice?"
Then comes his two biggest whoppers of all – one being his 8/12/07 interview with Chris Wallace of Fox: "I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word pro-choice because I didn't FEEL I was pro-choice. I would protect the law, I said, as it was, but I wasn't pro-choice, and so..." = That whatever he was from 1970 when his mom ran as a pro-abortion senator & he sided with her, to 5/27/05, w/whatever interruption he had due to a pro-life altar call in Nov of '04, whatever that was...well, he assures us it wasn't a pro-abortion inlook or outlook 'cause he didn't ”feel...pro-choice..." = So does that make him a life-long pro-lifer?
On embryonic stem cell research, he was for it in a June, '02 speech. He supposedly "converted" to the entire pro-life cause over this issue in Nov of '04.
By Dec of '07 he was telling Katie Couric that he was pro-choice on parents of such embryos exercising either the choice to give up their surplus embryo(s) for adoption, or to "donate" them to "research" (dissection). In that Dec 07 interview with Couric, in two back-to-back sentences, he uses the terms "parent" and "adoption" to apply to embryos – which sounds very “pro-life” and commendable....only in the very next sentence he uses the following terms without seeing any contradiction:
"parent"
"donate"
"research"
He actually said parents of these adoptable embryos who “donated” them to “research” (dissection) was "acceptable."
Would the real Mythster please stand up?
These Slick Willard knuckledraggers are a real stitch. How many times these vile cretins viciously attacked people that stood up to their lies and revisionist history regarding their idol. The names and slander I’ve been called by them over the past three years was beyond disgusting. I and another member were called homosexual child molestors for opposing Slick Willard, as well as “pornographers”, “serial spouse cheaters” (amazing, since I’m not married), and “chronic Mormon bashers” (for which they couldn’t present a shred of evidence). These PAID agents and delusional sycophants are beyond despicable, and then they have the nerve to act like THEY are the aggrieved party, these poor little souls being crucified for their beliefs. What a bunch of drama queens.
According to what Orrin Hatchling has said in the past, it is likely that Mormonism (thus Mitt’s position) doesn’t acknowledge the embryo to be a human until it is found inside a woman’s body ... petri dish conception isn’t human conception until the ‘thing’ magically transforms into a human when placed in a human female’s body.