"[Back at the hospital, a distraught Carrel Hilton Sheldon assented to her doctor's advice and terminated her life-threatening pregnancy.] "
I read the longer article on this. She was a mother of four children, one having died in infancy, and she was pregnant again. I don't recall seeing a mention of a husband or father of the children in the longer article. So where was the husband/father during all of this?
I Googled this and couldn't find anything definitive. However, for any vote Romney loses from this story he is likely to gain another vote of a pro-life person who may have doubted Romney's personal position on abortion.