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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Even in his acceptance speech Romney said he had hoped Obama had been successful. Does he not know what Obamas stood for? I guess that Obama’s agenda is OK with him there is no reason to worry. The Romneybots can stop running around yelling The Sky is Falling.
You are so right. I am amused when I here thes people say how they are going to hold Romney’s feet to the fire. . Their idol has clay feet and won’t bothered at all.
Nana says Romney spoke truth, supports abortion for ‘health’ of the mother and any other excuse: pro-abortion leader
Romney raised revenue in Ma. by calling the increases fees not taxes. He did not run again because even the liberals saw the horrible things he did to the state. RomneyCare, gay marriage, same sex adoptions, free taxpayer paid abortions’ cap & trade, Free cars, free insurance, free repairs and eve free AAA cards for welfare recipients. etc. etc. etc.
because Roe vs. Wade is, unfortunately, the law of the land.
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Roe V Wade is UnConstitutional...
But you wouldnt know that because ignorant Willard doesnt know that or he would have told you...
Just because Willard wants something to be “the law of the land” doesnt make it so...
Hes not pharoh...yet...
The only 1ssue Romney has been consistent on is that he wants to be President. So much so he and his campaign started the false rumors about Sarah Palin being a diva, so he could run now. He got his wish we got Obama.
You have been added to the Hall of Traitors. CongratsTroll.
It doesn't really matter where Jimmy Hoffa is buried. What does matter is the horrendous record of the current administration in literally every area of government - foreign and domestic. Romney would not have been my first choice for a Presidential candidate, but then again none of the candidates we had to choose from were without their flaws. However, I live in the real world, and of the two choices we have, Romney is exponentially superior to Obama. If you can't see this then perhaps it is you who believe in fairies and imagine that you can click your heels three times and conjure up a perfect Conservative candidate whom everbody at Free Republic will fall in love with.
Oh? Was Romney on the Supreme Court when the Roe vs. Wade decision was handed down?
LOL! Too bad they're reduced to fragging with water balloons.
Obama's abominable record makes voting for my trash can more appealing than re-electing him.
“However, I live in the real world, and of the two choices we have, Romney is exponentially superior to Obama. If you can’t see this then perhaps it is you who believe in fairies and imagine that you can click your heels three times and conjure up a perfect Conservative candidate whom everbody at Free Republic will fall in love with”
No, you HOPE Romney is exponentially better. Don’t get that confused. Unless you can explain to me how, like in Ryan’s “budget,” we can truly expect to have 2 percent unemployment and 5 percent growth every year to “balance” the budget by 2040 without any real pain and cuts. (It’s basically like saying we’ll never have a balanced budget.) You can also explain to me why maintaining the “good parts of ObamaCare,” I.E public private exchanges and getting “affordable” insurance to people with previous diagnosis, not to mention the unspoken (by Mittens, but spoken of by his surrogates) desire to push a RomneyCare solution on the entire country, is going to ‘solve’ the debt problems pushed by ObamaCare. It also helps that Mittens only complaint on ObamaCare lately is that he did it “by cutting Medicare.” Which, of course, would be the same way he would have done it, since Mittens shifted 50 percent of RomneyCare and MA’s health cost onto the federal government.
You’re smoking drugs when you keep telling me Romney is going to be superior, when Romney doesn’t have a legitimate plan! It’s all smoke and mirrors, one lie hidden beneath other lies, all based on flowery scenarios that will never happen in the real world. ABO ABO ABO doesn’t negate mathematics, though I’m sure you guys wish it would. At the rate we’re going now, the economy is going to collapse regardless of which party is in power... because neither party is serious about small government, understands economics or the health care system, and is afraid to do anything serious like making necessary cuts because they value their political careers moreso than the country’s future.
And then to add insult to injury, Mittens is a utterly immoral pathological liar who you can’t trust at all when he speaks publicly, because the next week he could say something utterly different. And guess what! This loser isn’t without principles totally. He’s without MORAL principles, but he GOES LEFTIST WITH HIS PRINCIPLES.
Thanks, but no thanks, I’m not going to drink the koolaid or pay attention to your simplistic arguments that don’t even have any basis in reality.
“You have been added to the Hall of Traitors. CongratsTroll.”
Did you post that in response to his post about Mittens campaign sabotaging Palin on the even of the 2008 election to help Obama? Because, if so, that’s really funny.
“You have been added to the Hall of Traitors. CongratsTroll.”
Did you post that in response to his post about Mittens campaign sabotaging Palin on the eve of the 2008 election to help Obama? Because, if so, that’s really funny.
RaisingCain, I did not post my question in a personal manner. Why you chose to, I’m not sure.
I am not a scare-monger. I am not foolish. I do not put my faith in politics.
obama or Romney. Choose. Our nation is on the brink. The damage already done is immense. obama will finish America.
Choose.
“obama or Romney. Choose. Our nation is on the brink. The damage already done is immense. obama will finish America.
Choose.”
What you’re really asking me to do is to remove my brain and flip a coin.
I SAY: So typical of Romney supporters to want to silence people who disagree with them. The truth about Romney must really get under your skin.
ta ta
Freedom or liberalism
I love the smell of liberalism melting down in the afternoon, thanks - YO.
Brilliant!
I agree with you and I’m not trying to argue with or contradict you, but just to be clear (and perhaps I’m misunderstanding you), an ectopic pregnancy is not an infection and it cannot be “treated” with antibiotics if that is what you are trying to say. An ectopic pregnancy is one where the egg implants outside the womb. In most cases the egg implants in the fallopian tube although in rare cases the egg can implant in the ovary, abdomen, on the intestines, or in the cervix, but none of these pregnancies can progress normally. Most ectopic pregnancies end up in early miscarriages and no permanent harm to the mother is done.
An infection or inflammation of the fallopian tube, among other conditions such as endometriosis, scar tissues from left from long gone infections, previous abortions or STD’s, previous abdominal surgeries including intestinal surgeries, previous tubular pregnancies or congenital abnormalities of the fallopian tubes, etc., can cause a blockage of the fallopian tube that can in turn cause an ectopic pregnancy but an ectopic or (tubular) pregnancy cannot be resolved by treating it as an infection. (And pregnant women and their unborn children can be safely treated with some antibiotics BTW).
Except in very, very rare cases, the only treatment of an ectopic pregnancy that doesn’t miscarry and progresses, is to terminate the pregnancy, either through medication if the baby has not already died, which is often the case or in emergency surgery.
Usually in tubular pregnancies, God or “nature” if you will takes its course early on and the pregnancy usually ends in an early miscarriage. But if no natural miscarriage occurs and the egg implants in the fallopian tube and the pregnancy continues and the fetus (baby) grows, the fallopian tube will eventually rupture which is very serious and life threatening to the mother - due to the large artery that runs on the outside of each Fallopian tube, hemorrhaging to death is a very real consideration in a tubular pregnancy, not to mention that her chances of every conceiving or carrying another child to term is greatly reduced if the fallopian tube ruptures.
A good friend of mine went through this some years ago and it was devastating for her and her husband as they really wanted a baby so much. Her OBY was devastated as well; he’s a good man, a good doctor and a pro-life Christian and he has been my GYN/OBY for over 25 years. But in my friend’s case, she was already in severe pain, lighted headed, bleeding and her heart beat and BP was very high, she was very close to having a full out rupture and hemorrhage. The doctor told them that this was a dire emergency and if she didn’t go into surgery ASAP, she could very likely die and whether he performed surgery or not, it was 100% certain that the baby would die, that the baby at only about 14 weeks, was as good as dead already and the only hope was to save her life.
She lost not only the baby but one of her fallopian tubes but she lived. A few years later, quite unexpectedly and miraculously, she got pregnant again and she and her husband brought home a beautiful, health full term baby boy. Two years later they brought home a healthy baby girl who they named “Hope Elizabeth”.
I am pro-life but in circumstances such as that that my friend when through, I would hate to think of a situation where she, because of a law intended to save lives, it ended up taking someone like hers. It’s certainly a fine line and a slippery slope when it comes to terms like the “health of the mother”, vs. a term like the “life of the mother”. But quite frankly it’s not always so black and white. I side with life but I don’t side with seeing a women die needlessly. My friend’s tragic but ultimately life affirming situation leads me to accept that sometimes, in perhaps rare cases, the life of the mother is a legitimate reason for not outlawing “abortion” if one can even call what happed to her an “abortion”, in any and all cases with no exception what so ever.
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