Romney was never the “champion” of abortion, your protestations notwithstanding. He used to believe a woman should have a right to choose for herself whether to have an abortion, which of course means he didn’t oppose abortion. But he wasn’t it’s “champion”, and the hyperbole does nothing to advance the discussion. NONE of our candidates were 100% pro-life, except possible Keyes which is just one of the many reasons he had no chance of getting elected.
By 2002, he was more giving lip service to the right to choose than anything, since there was nothing he could do anyway to stop it.
But when he COULD do something, when it was within his power, he realised too late his error, and he did what he could to be pro-life. When almost half of the REPUBLICANS IN THE SENATE were supporting EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH, and spending our money on it, Romney stood up in a liberal state and opposed spending money on it.
Abortion is legal, and in fact many pro-life people support abortion, be it to save a mother’s life, or for rape or incest. So long as there is ANY reason for a person to have an abortion, it WILL be covered by medical health insurance plans. If it is legal to have an abortion, and a woman’s health is in any way in danger, and the woman decides to have an abortion, the insurance will have to be there.
When it is illegal, the insurance won’t cover it. Until then, it will, and the demagoging about the 85% democratic mass. legislature covering medically necessary abortions in a health care plan is stupid, and destructive to the pro-life movement.
Look, the pro-life movement has enough trouble keeping from being painted as extremists, without so-called “lifers” running ads against pro-life candidates who aren’t sufficiently pure, or complaining about health insurance that people pay for covering a medical procedure that is legal in this country.
Especially when those same people are also up in arms about the plan-b pill, which at worst is only SOMETIMES an abortion pill, and which is used primarily in cases of rape, where most of our pro-life elected officials still SUPPORT abortion, which mostly gets doctors out of the procedure, which is not seen as an abortion pill by most people which means it does not contribute to the coursening of our culture like medical procedure abortions do, and which many people see as a way to AVOID having to have abortion.
I realise the Catholic pro-life community also opposes contraception. We could make that into ANOTHER chasm in the conservative movement, or we could stop tearing down our mostly-conservative brethren and realise that even if we are all UNITED we can not win an election on our own.
You can whine and cry about it all you want. You can wish things were different, but they aren't. As far as what the world thinks of us -- we don't care. We don't live for the world, we live for Our Lord and it is His World. He made it and He made us.
"Especially when those same people are also up in arms about the plan-b pill, which at worst is only SOMETIMES an abortion pill, and which is used primarily in cases of rape, where most of our pro-life elected officials still SUPPORT abortion, which mostly gets doctors out of the procedure, which is not seen as an abortion pill by most people which means it does not contribute to the coursening of our culture like medical procedure abortions do,"
Are the babies being killed by this plan-b bill? Yes? Then yes, our culture is being made course by the those who think these precious babes, created in God's image, are worthless. I don't believe, I've ever seen such ignorant crap on this conservative forum.
So now you've outed yourself as pro-abortion. You've already outed yourself as pro-gay. Why are you here? Have you read the front page of this site where it states what kind of forum this is? If all Romney supporters are like you, I can guarantee he won't be many evangelical votes and you are not helping his case whatsoever.