I’ll stand by my previous posts and wish you goodnight.
I’m glad that I could expose you to the true Romney.
“”Today, as Romney plots a national campaign for president _ he makes a formal announcement on Tuesday _ he is seeking to reassure social conservatives pivotal to winning the GOP nomination that he sincerely opposes abortion. He describes himself as pro-life, argues that Roe v. Wade should be replaced with state abortion regulations, and cites the science he studied amid a legislative debate over embryonic stem cell research as the basis for his position.
Romney says his moment of illumination about the immorality of abortion came two years ago during a meeting with an embryonic stem cell researcher.
“The comment was made that this really wasn’t a moral issue, because the embryos were terminated or destroyed at 14 days,” Romney said during a recent campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, S.C., in a reprise of other recent explanations of his thinking on abortion.
“And it struck me very powerfully at that point, that the Roe v. Wade approach has so cheapened the value of human life that someone could think it’s not a moral issue to destroy embryos that have been created solely for the purpose of research, and I said to my chief of staff, and that’s been 2 1/2 years ago, I said to her, ‘I want to make it very clear that I’m pro-life.’”
The Harvard University researcher with whom Romney met, Douglas Melton, has disputed Romney’s recollection of their Nov. 9, 2004, meeting in the governor’s Statehouse office.
“Governor Romney has mischaracterized my position; we didn’t discuss killing or anything related to it,” Melton said in a December statement to The Boston Globe. “I explained my work to him, told him about my deeply held respect for life and explained that my work focuses on improving the lives of those suffering from debilitating diseases.”