I keep seeing a video posted about Romney on abortion.
Romney pomising to govern without changing MA’s pro-choice law desn’t make him pro- abortion.
You can raise exactly the same issue about Sarah Palin. Note the article in Mother Jonew that does just that and puts Romney and Palin in the same category:
Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin
When Palin touts her book in Indiana, pro-lifers will be there—because they don’t believe she’s one of them.
—By Stephanie Mencimer
Mother Jones, Tue November 17, 2009 3:00 AM PST
“ARTL launched a new website this week called Prolife Profiles that prominently features a report calling Palin’s record on abortion “shocking to the conscience.” ARTL has given Palin a “Tier 4” designation that lumps her in with other allegedly fake pro-lifers like Romney, George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Rep. Ron Paul. Tier 4 members “use the pro-life title but deny the personhood and God-given right to life of the unborn.” By that measure, Palin has many strikes against her, according to ARTL, including:
* Her failure to endorse legislation and amendments that would extend equal protection laws to unborn children
* Her description of the morning after pill as contraception rather than an abortifacient
* Palin’s statement to the Anchorage Daily News that she opposes the “use of public funds for elective abortions.” This means, according to ARTL, that Palin supports taxpayer funding for non-elective abortions.
ARL takes particular offense at Palin’s belief that voters and individual states should decide whether abortion should be legal or not. “If you’re personally against slavery but say that the states have the right to decide if they can trade in slaves, then you’re a hypocrite,” explains Enyart.
One of Palin’s biggest violations of pro-life orthodoxy was her political partnership with John McCain, whom the National Right to Life Committee dubbed a “significant threat to future advances by the pro-life movement” back in 2000. (It endorsed him in 2008.) ARTL is also not happy that Palin and McCain supported stem cell research.
The group also blasts Palin for her position that public schools should teach evolution as “an accepted principle” (a belief she seems to have repudiated in her book, according to some leaked reports). This might seem to be a tangent for the group, but Enyart says creationism is central to the abortion issue. “We have the right to life from our creator. If we come from animals, you can kill one another without consequences. A fish can eat another fish and it’s not a crime.”
This is not an attack on Sarah, since I think she is outstanding on the issues. It is a call to be a bit more consistent in the way you evaluate candidates. Even when you know you are right on an issue, it still improves your cause if you are fair and consistent.
buh bye, troll.
The stuff you cite in this post is trash. It is the height of speculation, and not contextual at all.
Example:
But as Hotline’s Jen Skalka points out, “During a 2006 AK gubernatorial debate, Palin was asked for her view on stem sell research:
“’Well, another hypothetical, because I certainly have not seen it on the docket in our university system, stem cell research. But here again, with a Pro-life position, and its interesting that so many questions revolve around this centeredness I have of respecting life and the potential of every human life, but no, stem-cell research would ultimately end in destruction of life. I couldn’t support (it).’”
Skalka adds, “It’s worth noting, too, that the GOP’s 2008 platform included strong language” calling for a ban on “all embryonic stem-cell research, public or private.”
You do realize that Colorado group is FOS. Half of their accusations are completely false (The Supreme Court nominee was not a planned parenthood director, she was director of a pro-adoption group in the 90s that became part of planned parenthood in 2003, almost a half a decade after she left).
The rest is innuendo and twisting statements. That group has pretty much zero respect here, and not just for the attack on Palin, if you browse their website, it is pure amateur hour that does little but attack other pro-lifers.