“I listened to the rest of the interview and looked at the transcript.”
You say that NRLC didn’t know. Wonder what they think now, or did they get paid off with a nice donation?
When I think of the interview you quote am a bit shocked that Romney would not only support the well worn “rape and incest” exceptions and now adds “health”. It really deflates what ever enthusiasm that I had for him.
Looka like the predicted etch-a-scetch phenomena. He is moving to the center right before the election to woo the “moderates”.
I am hoping that Romney is doing this just to win and that his real position is closer to ours.
He may be doing what his (messed up, see Politico) advisers are telling him. “If you want to win you must move to the center on abortion.”
The problem is that we know who the pro-aborts will vote for. Adding health gets him no more votes.
If health is a rationale for abortion then abortion will be in any national health care bill that is worked out.
Still with Ryan on the ticket we must support the man — otherwise we get Obama which would be truly a disaster for pro-life causes up and down the spectrum.
Perhaps we can put pressure on President Romney to protect the unborn and vulnerable once he is in office.
Support who you want, but know that Mitt Romney has ALWAYS been pro-abortion, the ONLY straying from that position was during the republican primaries from 2005 through 2012, as he had to maintain the facade for two primary cycles.
Romney tells us that he and his family became pro-abortion in 1963 out of love, in a moving personal story explaining why legal abortion is a must, but there is no real, or convincing story of what made him convert in 2005.
What we do know, is now that he is finished with the primaries, Mitt has returned to his life-long, pro-abortion position.