Posted on 09/03/2012 8:07:13 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
Tampa – Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney misspoke this week when he said he believed abortion should be permitted if a doctor says the “health” of the mother might be compromised, according to the leader of one of the nation’s leading pro-life organizations.
Mitt Romney “My position has been clear throughout this campaign,” Romney told CBS News. “I’m in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and the health and life of the mother.”
Romney had not previously included maternal “health,” an exception pro-abortion activists have interpreted so broadly that it essentially justifies abortion under any circumstances.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer this week that she had spoken with a campaign official, who confirmed the former governor did not favor such an expansive exception.
“If that were his position, he would never have received our endorsement, that’s for sure,” Dannenfelser said. “I have heard clarification from his spokesperson, restating what his position really is, which is rape, incest, life of the mother. That is his position. Those are his exceptions.”
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Look, if there’s an entoptic pregnancy and leaving the baby/fetus in the tube will end up killing them both, that to me is the “health of the mother.” Killing a full term baby because the mother is depressed is not “health of the mother.” So it’s a slippery slope and I know that.
Did he misspeak every-time or just this time?
Romney is not pro-life.
Romney or Obama will be the next President
Romney agrees with 85% of our position. Obama is 100% opposed to everything we claim to be for.
Obama is pro infanticide, Romney is not.
So why are some of you so desperate to help reelect a Pro-infanticide President?
That might not be the intent of your actions, it is the result of them
Romney or Obama will be the next President
Romney agrees with 85% of our position. Obama is 100% opposed to everything we claim to be for.
Obama is pro infanticide, Romney is not.
So why are some of you so desperate to help reelect a Pro-infanticide President?
That might not be the intent of your actions, it is the result of them
So you’re voting for Obama?
Usually the Susan B. Anthony List has done good work. I have often donated a bit to them. But I think that Dannenfelser is deluding herself this time, probably out of anxiety to depose Obama, by hook or by crook.
Romney is a congenital liar, with a history of baby killing. Maybe he wouldn’t go as far as to throw a born-alive baby out on the roof, to die in the sun, as Obama would. But that’s about the extent of his “pro-life” beliefs.
I think the word we are looking for is “life” of the mother. Health includes mental health which can include - “If I have this baby I’ll go nuts.”.
The correction by Romney’s campaign was issued quickly...but some are still insisting he is backtracking. I will trust the pro-life organizations over the people who are intent on demonizing Romney no matter what happens.
Other sources of risk to the "health" of the mother in pregnancy can generally be managed with medical care and abortion is not necessary.
Our positions - what like pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda, pro-government mandates, pro-government run health care, pro-man made global warming, higher taxes, bigger government (just going by his record)........
Those aren’t my positions.
Listen vote for Romney that is a choice you and you alone make.
To say that someone who opposes Romney and his liberalism is in favor of infanticide, maybe one of the stupidest things on FR ever.
As a side note all abortion is infanticide.
Its not a slippery slope. Please learn about the principle of double effect.
Ethical doctors know that abortion is more hazardous to mental health than live birth is.
First of all, I do not agree that Romney agrees with 85% of “our” position. But, even if he did, the inexorable trend is our bigger problem. Even if Romney agrees with 85% of our position, the trend means that the next President will agree with 75%, then the next one with 50%, and the next one with 35%.
And, one of the key points that people miss is that a segment of the Party is working and hoping for this result. They are hoping that it will be a battle in which we will lay down our weapons and accept the increasingly (ahem) moderate position. They are claiming to be interested in conservative values while working to undermine those values.
The pre-Romney wavering wasn’t their end goal. Romney isn’t their end goal. They hope for something/someone even more liberal.
We have to stop the direction that the Party is heading. We have to speak out while speaking out is still allowed.
You all know that Romney isn’t a social conservative. We have come to this point that a social (ahem) moderate is our standard bearer because the liberal wing of the Party knows that conservatives can be scared or bluffed or bullied into voting for whomever liberals manage to get nominated. We are plantation workers willingly voting for increasingly liberal candidates each election cycle.
We are near the bottom of the slippery slope. People are wading hip-deep in the cesspool at the bottom and trying to convince us that it doesn’t smell so bad.
I may be pushed in, but I won’t voluntarily jump.
What trend are you talking about??
Well, it's certainly fair to say that someone who opposes Romney finds it preferable to reject the 85% solution in favor of a ZERO-bama outcome.
...the reestablishment of observable evolution and Divine intervention aka natural law and God...it had to happen because such blessings are eternal outside of perdition.
Nobody in their right mind would be supporting Obama because they believe in the Pro-Life cause. These Ron Paul Trolls have been doing this crap for months on end. They could not care less about the life issue. They are liars out to deceive the weak minded, out to destroy and make way for their savior Ron Paul in 2016. FURP.
Understand that if Roe v. Wade is over turned, a president's position on the "health of the mother exceptions" becomes irrelevant.
The correction by Romney’s campaign was issued quickly
Quickly? Five days later? Quickly would have been a few hours later. He hears the grumbling so he politically is changing his mind. I am voting for him but lets not delude ourselves about this guy.
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