What a bunch of BS!
Myth Romney was, is, and always will be pro-abortion.
I am not aware of a single politician in American history, regardless of party, who is more of a disingenuous opportunist than Romney. The man will say anything he thinks his audience at that moment wants to hear.
Romney CLAIMS to have become pro-life, but conveniently this was done when he decided to run for president and was no doubt told that it would be impossible to win the GOP nomination if he was openly pro-abortion.
Talk to someone who was once pro-abortion, but now pro-life and you will understand what it means. For them, becoming pro-life is not a decision, it is a cathartic conversion experience that instills in them a passion to to defend life. They can tell you what happened, they can describe how their eyes were opened. Romney has none of this.
RR, too, was once pro-abortion and later became pro-life.
I am so damn sick of pro-abortion FReepers repeating this LIE.
Ronald Reagan signed the "Therapeutic Abortion Act" because he was lied to. The bill was to only allow abortion in cases of rape, incest or actual risk to the life of the mother (sound familiar?); however, the abortionists immediately interpreted "life of the mother" as being a desire for the sake of convenience. Reagan spent the rest of his life regretting this action (that the California legislature would have overridden anyway had he vetoed it).
Try reading Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation and see what Ronald Reagan really though about abortion:
I have often said we need to join in prayer to bring protection to the unborn. Prayer and action are needed to uphold the sanctity of human life. I believe it will not be possible to accomplish our work, the work of saving lives, “without being a soul of prayer.” The famous British Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, prayed with his small group of influential friends, the “Clapham Sect,” for decades to see an end to slavery in the British empire. Wilberforce led that struggle in Parliament, unflaggingly, because he believed in the sanctity of human life. He saw the fulfillment of his impossible dream when Parliament outlawed slavery just before his death.Let his faith and perseverance be our guide. We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others, a value of which Malcolm Muggeridge says: “… however low it flickers or fiercely burns, it is still a Divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives ever so humane and enlightened.”
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.
These are not the words of a man who is trying to score points with a group of voters, Reagan wasn't reacting to polling data, he submitted this treatise UNSOLICITED because of his personal convictions and because it was the right thing to do.
President Reagan knew that thousands of innocent babies were being murdered each day, he knew that the American Holocaust was an evil stain on our Republic and he heard the voice of millions of unborn children crying out in horror. Abortion wasn't a political issue for President, it was simply a matter of right and wrong.
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