Posted on 04/12/2012 9:01:29 PM PDT by STARWISE
National Right to Life and two other major pro-family groups have endorsed Mitt Romney for president, saying that on the issues of abortion and marriage, he stands with them.
National Right to Life's endorsement Thursday (April 12) came two days after Romney's leading challenger for the Republican nomination -- Rick Santorum -- dropped out, making Romney the presumptive nominee. Also endorsing Romney were the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports pro-life women for political office, and the National Organization for Marriage, which has led the charge nationwide in protecting the traditional definition of marriage.
In its endorsement, National Right to Life said Romney "has taken a strong pro-life position and is committed to implementing policies to protect the unborn." The organization said Romney:
-- opposes Roe v. Wade, having called the 1973 decision a "big mistake."
-- supports the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions.
-- backs the Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funds for organizations that perform or promote abortions in foreign countries.
"On pro-life issues, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama provide a stark contrast," said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. "As the country's most pro-abortion president, Barack Obama has pursued a radical pro-abortion agenda. It is now time for pro-life Americans to unite behind Mitt Romney. For the sake of unborn children, the disabled, and the elderly, we must win."
The Susan B. Anthony List made similar points and added that Romney has pledged to "appoint only constitutionalist judges to the federal bench" and also to defund Planned Parenthood.
"Women deserve a president who truly respects our views on an issue so central to womanhood," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "A President Romney will be that man. If there was murkiness during the last election over Barack Obama's extreme abortion position, absolute clarity exists now -- and his abortion position is rejected by women young and old."
The National Organization for Marriage, which played key roles in preventing gay "marriage" from being legalized in California and Maine, said Romney was an early signer of the organization's pledge, which meant he was committing to:
-- support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
-- appoint Supreme Court justices and an attorney general "who will apply the original meaning of the Constitution."
-- "vigorously" defend the federal Defense of Marriage Act in court.
-- establish a presidential commission on religious liberty.
-- advance legislation to allow District of Columbia citizens to vote on the definition of marriage. Gay "marriage" currently is legal in D.C.
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, said the group was "proud" to endorse Romney.
"President Obama," Brown said, "has declared our nation's marriage laws to be unconstitutional and not only has refused to defend them, his administration is actively working to repeal them in the courts. He's come out against state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. And he has appointed leaders of the same-sex 'marriage' movement as national co-chairs of his reelection campaign.
Incredibly, Obama still apparently claims to personally support traditional marriage. With friends like President Obama, the institution of marriage doesn't need enemies."
Compiled by Michael Foust, associate editor of Baptist Press.
I would like to see Obama defeated soundly by Newt Gingrich/Herman Cain.
Thank God for our fathers and mothers, and grandparents.
Without them would we be like these airheads? I sometimes think they can’t have had a heritage at all, to ever be able to sit at the knee of elders as so many of us could.
A shame. I try to find a civilized reason for the acute blindness and try to give the benefit or reasonable doubt to fools, but I can not suffer them gladly, and probably never will.
Interesting about your grandfather. I love to read non-fiction accounts of the resistance during WWII and have several awesome reads, so I was taken by your mention of him immediately.
The choice right now is not between Romney and Obama.
It is between Romney and Newt Gingrich, a soundly pro-life candidate who also understands the danger and methods of the Islamists - who would seek to install sharia by precedents such as the government forcing Christians (Catholics) to violate their own religion (which Romney did in Massachusetts). Once that precedent is there it’s just a matter of switching the government-established religion from “progressivism” to Islam.
And if we support Romney when we could be supporting Gingrich, we are asking for that very thing to happen.
Romney probably means well, but we all know what paves the road to hell. And those who support Romney in the primary as if we were already in the general will pave the way with good intentions.
And if we elected nobody at all as President, they’d still be killing babies. And if we elected EternalVigilance President, they’d still be killing babies.
As to who cares about the “pro-life” movement — start with the hundreds of thousands of people who are alive today who would have been aborted if not for the tireless work of the pro-life movement.
We aren’t perfect, and we don’t have the power to make things perfect, and it is a sad thing — but don’t dump on us because we haven’t parted the waters and led the country to the promised land.
If we ran a mission and rescued half the hostages, you’d denounce it because it didn’t save all the hostages.
I think we are still allowed to defend conservative and pro-life organizations when they are attacked.
National Right-to-Life isn’t God. It’s a human organization, run by flawed humans. It is political, and therefore makes political calculations. I’ve seen the state organizations endorse pro-life democrat incumbents against better pro-life republican challengers, simply because they wanted to encourage pro-life democrats, knowing that a democrat majority was bad for the pro-life movement.
But they are a good group, and they have sound reasons for their endorsements.
But Newt is still in the race, and Santorum isn’t, so Newt is what we have now. And it would have been nice if NRTL had held off endorsing until someone had won, rather than endorsing Romney over Gingrich. Gingrich is clearly pro-life, and has been for longer than Romney.
I wish they had endorsed Santorum earlier because it might have helped him raise money.
Sarah Palin: "I am convinced that Governor Romney, if he is our nominee and if he is elected President, he will know to surround himself with those who inherently know to go right, to err on the side of smaller, smarter government, and that gives me a lot of comfort"
"I am convinced" is a lot stronger than your "she hopes". On the other hand, note she did not say Romney would be conservative, but that he would surround himself with conservatives. Still, she seems a lot more comforted by that thought than many people here are.
And she did say she wanted Newt and Ron Paul to stay in the race.
I’m with you 100%.
Much of what we’re seeing in the way of support from Conservatives to Romney is due to politics. These folks cannot see that this isn’t “politics as usual”. Kansas58 is one of those party apparatchiks and what he has said indicates that BHO2 is being widely recognized as a communist. That’s good, because we are right on the edge civil action, most likely very violent in tone and action.
The Democratic Party has been subverted by communists. I’ve been watching what the Democratic Party is doing here out west, and in my city the party headquarters is co-located with the ILWU union hall.
Leo Gerard, the Canadian communist head of International Steel Workers Union, has been pulling out all the stops to get the U.S. labor bosses lined up in support of BHO2. I’m certain there are plans afoot to sabotage western ports and committ violence in order to spur a declaration of martial law by the White House.
This coming election is all about money and power, and who wields it in the U.S.A. Will it be the Global Social Justice movement, meaning communism led by BHO2? Or will it the elites of Wall Street, the Globalists, led by Romney and the Bush family?
You should remember that it is dangerous enough for the poster to make the claim they did about MCFL; nobody would get away with actually arguing any of the points you made, so nobody will.
I wish so many conservative groups didn’t get caught in the cross-fire.
Hitler got about 33% of the vote and then in an Obama like fashion ignored the laws, appointed himself supreme leader, and took over agency by agency. He used race baiting as a political technique and blamed all of Germany’s ills on the Wiemar Republic propped up by the Allies. (That is, blamed Democracy). That sounds a lot more like Obama then Romney. Oh, and he also nationalized a lot heavy industry and even bailed out car companies who in turn became nationalized, to save the country, of course. And Hitler and O also seemed to have a great hatred for Churchill. Curious.
I think you could also be supporting Ron Paul. He’s still in the race, and Sarah did say she hoped Ron Paul stayed in the race.
If Democrats got together and planned to pool their money to buy off the Republican party to make them run liberal candidates, things would be playing out exactly as they are now.
And people like you appear to be fine with rubber-stamping the whole scam instead of standing on principle.
Good point.
bfl
What really shocks me is that some people are surprised by what she said..she has been saying for months that she will support whoever the nominee is..she has been supporting Newt from the beginning but if he does not win she will support whoever that person is. People can agree with that or they don’t have to but what she said tonight isn’t exactly breaking news, in fact it was nothing new. She also said she wants Newt and Ron Paul to both stay in the race so NO she did NOT endorse Romney. Michele Bachmann has said the same thing, she will also support whoever the nominee is so if anyone can accuse Sarah Palin of being a RINO(Which is beyond ridiculous!) then the same can be said for Bachmann
I appreciate you transcribing exactly what she said I apologize for the misquote
NRL HAS BEEN A GOP INSIDER OUTFIT FOR A LONG TIME.
THEY SOLD THEIR SOUL TO THE PARTY A LONG TIME AGO AND WOULD SAY THAT GLORIA STEINEM OR BETTY FRIEDAN WERE PRO-LIFE IF THEY HAD AN ‘R’ NEXT TO THEIR NAME IN AN ELECTION.
That group is the local affiliate of NRL which is nothing but a big money financed tool of the Republican Party insiders (GOP Establishment).
Back in 1988 and 1992 NRL told us to vote for George H. W. Bush 41 who was Pro-Abortion until he became Reagan’s VP and had to toe the Reagan line to get his butt elected.
But when the burden of the presidency was lifted in 1993 I saw Bush 41 with Larry King saying he believed in a “woman’s right to choose” agreeing with his wife Barbara, who had to keep her mouth shut for 12 years when they were in DC.
Then the senior Bushes hushed up while their sons pursued their political destinies.
Or alternately, she’s a pragmatist.
Only partly blame NRTL. My blame goes go the GOP for ramming this jerkoff thru the primaries and forcing us to support him.
Well, Mitt may get our votes{maybe or maybe not} but he isnt getting much more. No cash, no signs,no workers who are Conservatives.
FUGOP
Drew68: "It's called 'The Lesser Of Two Evils.'"
butterdezillion: "Mitt Romney is not our nominee. There is not a race between Romney and Obama. If these people really cared about getting a pro-lifer in there they would be galvanizing around Newt Gingrich right now."
Thank you butterdezillion. Couldn't be plainer, yet some people are too dim to grasp it, or too docile to resist.
Nope. You're wrong.
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