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“Reagan supported abortion at one time.”

This statement is false, and I for one am tired of the late great President Reagan’s views being falsified in a feeble attempt to justify Romney’s record of aggressively legitimizing abortion on demand.

In a legal environment that prohibited all abortions in the 60’s, Reagan signed a law that established exceptions on the basis of rape, incest, or to save the life or health of the mother. (Absent health, the most broadly supported pro-life standard these days.)

Reagan was unsure and reticent about the health exception, but signed the bill anyway. Within a year, according to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, Reagan was characterizing his having signed the bill as a mistake — the only public policy decision he ever made that he publicly disavowed, Cannon says.

Reagan did not use his government post or his vast rhetorical skills to sing the praises of “a woman’s right to choose” (as Romney has).

Reagan was not endorsed by pro-abortion PACs (as Romney was).

Reagan never portrayed supporting the legal right to terminate the life of a prenatal child as “courageous” (as Romney did, referring to his own mother’s pro-abort on demand position as a U.S. Senate candidate).

All you Romney apologists: have at it trying to defend your guy’s indefensible record on abortion (and promoting the homosexual agenda and gun control), and trying to persuade us that at age 58 he finally “saw the light” and had an ever so sincere conversion to being a conservative (curiously timed to coincide with running for president)...

...but stop the repugnant resort to maligning and misrepresenting Ronald Reagan’s record when you find you can’t get the job done.