Posted on 02/02/2012 9:37:42 PM PST by NKP_Vet
A defining moment in Mitt Romney's post-pro-life-conversion political career came in his third year as governor of Massachusetts, when he decided Catholic hospitals would be required under his interpretation of a new state law to give rape victims a drug that can induce abortions.
Romney announced this decision -- saying it was the "right thing for hospitals" to do -- just two days after he had taken the opposite position.
The story begins in 1975, when Massachusetts enacted a law that said, "No privately controlled hospital .. shall be required to permit any patient to have an abortion ... or to furnish contraceptive devices or information to such patient ... when said services or referrals are contrary to the religious or moral principles of said hospital ... ."
Twenty-seven years later, when Romney was running for governor, he filled out a questionnaire for NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. It said: "Emergency contraception does not cause abortion. Rather, it prevents pregnancy from occurring. Will you support efforts to increase access to emergency contraception?"
Romney said: "Yes."
The next year, the Massachusetts legislature considered an "emergency contraception" mandate. It would have allowed pharmacists to sell Plan B -- an abortifacient -- without a prescription and without parental consent. It also would have required all hospitals to inform rape victims of the availability of such "emergency contraceptives" and provide them to the rape victim if she wanted them even when they would cause an abortion.
Maria Parker of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the public policy organization of the state's Catholic bishops, explained in testimony to the state legislature why Catholic hospitals could not do this"
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
“Romney Told Catholic Hospitals to Administer Abortion Pills”
Go ahead Romney supporters, tell us how this is a conservative thing to do and not at all like what Obama just pulled.
I dare ya chickens**ts.
Ironically, its Newt or Babies die, and America with them.
Choose the Babies, America.
FUMR!!
Your ping list please?
Romney is no different from Obama when forcing abortion on Catholic hospitals.
COUNT on it!!! (from me...)
And we all know that Romney and his National Healthcare Task Force Czar, Pam Bondi, are trying to push all 50 states to impose RomneyCare-like top-down government forced healthcare plans on their citizens and that taxpayer funded abortion and death panels will be the law of the land imposed on us by REPUBLICANS!!
DON’T LET MITT HAPPEN!!
Romney is just a paler shade of Obamao
Bump!
NO ROMNEY! NO WAY!
GO NEWT!
HE NAILED THIS FIRST!
bttt
He’s a baby-murdering lying, SOB, filthy, corrupt b@stard.
STOP ROMNEY NOW!
GO NEWT!
GO TEA PARTY
GO FREE REPUBLIC!
Shame, shame, shame on Romney! He and his GOP-E can GTH.
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God save us from an Obama or a Romney presidency. Please.
“Wonder how many babies died because Willard the liberal could less about protecting the life of the unborn.”
Glenn Beck has urged that Bishop Willard Romney’s efforts to discourage abortion within his LDS ‘church’ is proof that at heart, the bishop is a good and compassionate man. Perhaps Bishop Willard has a drive to make abortions safe and legal for the ‘gentiles’ out there, while his own flock increases.
New Gingrich ad that highlights Romney on abortion as well. http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/just-in-a-new-gingrich-ad-watch/
Someone needs to force him to become say a Baptist or Catholic and see if he doesn’t squeal about His Constitutional rights to practice his beliefs and obey his religious conscience being taken away. Romney being a Mormon doesn’t bother me though. That’s his and The Lord’s business. But the fact he is a Bill Of Rights Ignoring Tyrant does. And that’s my business. NO VOTE FOR MITT FROM ME. Mitt can become as irrelevant as Bob Dole in November 2012 as Bob Dole was in November 96 for all I care.
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