Posted on 05/02/2012 7:40:14 AM PDT by xzins
A recently released book on Mitt Romney clearly supports the importance of voting pro life. And how especially important it will be to elect real pro-life heroes in the U.S House and Senate.
Unfortunately, the case of Mitt Romney is typical of too many politicians.
It shows that you and I must never stop putting heat on all the politicians to support sweeping pro-life protections, because all too often their positions seem to change when, either as a candidate, or as an office holder, he or she believes that the prevailing wind has shifted.
Now I believe wholeheartedly in St. Paul’s “Road to Damascus” conversion, but I am not so sure we can really put much stock into “Road to the Presidency” conversions.
Just how many times should a candidate be allowed to change his position — and which conversion is real?
Especially on something so black and white as abortion.
Now, true pro-lifers like you and me can understand the conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life, but how do we explain the reverse? Yet that recent Mitt Romney book claims he decided to do just that during his ’94 bid to win the Massachusetts Senate.
After one pollster opined that a pro-life position would be a political liability for a statewide race in Massachusetts, Mitt decided to cast off his Church’s “burdensome pro-life position” and embrace wholeheartedly the Roe v. Wade position that legalized abortion-on-demand for the full nine months of pregnancy.
To seal the deal with the abortion lobby of Massachusetts he even sent Planned Parenthood a donation!
Then, during a debate with Ted Kennedy for Senate, Mitt Romney actually looked right into the camera and said, with full conviction, “I believe that Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice.”
Well . . . apparently Mitt had a pro-life change for the better 10 years later.
He credits a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem-cell researcher, while he was still Governor, as the moment that the scales fell from his eyes and he “realized” that the unborn needed his protection.
Yet, just how deep the change he had is still questionable.
Just months after his 2004 change of heart, he appointed a lifetime pro-abortion advocate to the Massachusetts bench.
Then, in 2005, after flopping around for a while on the issue of the so called “abortion pill” he flipped again, and finally came down on the wrong side — not only legalizing but expanding state subsidies to pay for even more abortions pills.
But I suppose the most worrisome insight into his true pro-life convictions occurred in 2006.
Mitt Romney, following his success in forcing RomneyCare on all Bay Staters, expanded abortion services in his bill, and required that the MassHealth Payment Policy Board always have one member appointed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.
He shrugs off that part when questioned about the plan he set in motion.
God bless him if he really has converted. Every pro-lifer will have to decide that for themselves.
But it seems that for many politicians the timing always coincides with their run for political office.
That’s why it’s so vital we keep the pressure on Mr. Romney to support a full pro-life agenda, including the Life at Conception Act, all the way until November 6 and beyond.
Since so many candidates blow back and forth with the wind — right now — while the candidates are looking for votes — is the best time to make sure that the wind is blowing in our direction.
And given Mr. Romney’s tendency to sway with the political winds, it’s even more important that you, and other National Pro-Life Alliance members, insist that candidates you support for the U.S. House and Senate pledge to support and cosponsor the Life at Conception Act.
By supporting the Life at Conception Act as a candidate litmus test, we can improve the positions and the pro-life resolve of all the candidates.
Sincerely,
Martin E. Fox, President National Pro-Life Alliance.
ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART!
true pro-lifers like you and me can understand the conversion from pro-abortion to pro-life, but how do we explain the reverse? Yet that recent Mitt Romney book claims he decided to do just that during his ’94 bid to win the Massachusetts Senate.
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1994 ???
No, way before that Willie Mitty was pro-abortion...
More than TWO DECADES in fact..
He supported his mothers decision to have a pro-abortion platform for her run for US Senate in 1970..
He was 25 at the time...an adult..
After one pollster opined that a pro-life position would be a political liability for a statewide race in Massachusetts, Mitt decided to cast off his Church’s “burdensome pro-life position” and embrace wholeheartedly the Roe v. Wade position that legalized abortion-on-demand for the full nine months of pregnancy.
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“Mitt decided to cast off his Church’s “burdensome pro-life position”
So the Mormon CEOs in SLC have control of what Willard does ???
Plus that “position” was not pro-life..
It is no abortions EXCEPT FOR
rape, incest, health of the mother or baby, or if the bishop has told the woman that during prayer the Mormon gods said to go ahead...
Hardly a PRO-LIFE “position”
No when the Mormon gods are PRO-ABORTION errr PRO-CHOICE...
After one pollster opined that a pro-life position would be a political liability for a statewide race in Massachusetts, Mitt decided to cast off his Church’s “burdensome pro-life position” and embrace wholeheartedly the Roe v. Wade position that legalized abortion-on-demand for the full nine months of pregnancy.
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“Mitt decided to....embrace wholeheartedly the Roe v. Wade position that legalized abortion-on-demand for the full nine months of pregnancy.”
He had been embracing abortion since before Roe V Wade...
at least back to 1970 THREE YEARS before abortion was LEGAL in the US...
Flip flopper. We can’t say that about the Kenyan, he’s had his Marxist goals since he was barely out of diapers.
SO MANY VALID REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA!
http://offgridblogger.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-20-most-disgusting-things-from-barack-obama/
Here are the various links that can be added to the links previously in the article below n the same vein:
1. Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJJP9AYgqU
2. Obama says knowing when human life begins is “above my pay grade”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOTfnz11kBk
3. Obama supported infanticide, voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (and tried to cover up his votes): http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/WhitePaperAugust282008.html
4. Obama thinks having a baby is punishment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbaig-D5pk
5. Obama supports gay marriage and repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and is against Defense of Marriage Act: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQJuKI0Gf8&feature=fvwrel (For the facts about homosexuality see http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/gay-rights.)
6. Obama thinks Americans are bitter by clinging to guns and religion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2h13OZHdmc
7. Obama ridicules the Bible and exposes his utter ignorance: http://antiobamassiah.wordpress.com/video-of-obama-comments-about-the-bible-that-are-unbelievable/
8. Obama bows and apologizes to foreign leaders, even our mortal enemies: http://www.capveterans.com/america_s_freedom_tea_parties_are_growing/id33.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xWmsoAP-HoE#!
9. Obama sends bust of Churchill home, insulting America’s strongest ally: http://thewesternexperience.com/2009/02/23/president-obama-returns-bust-of-sir-winston-churchill-back-to-britain/
10. Obama wants to punish success and spread the wealth around. (Is the top 10% of earners paying 71% of the taxes–and 49% of Americans paying no federal income tax not enough socialism for you, Mr. President?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM
11. Obama snubs Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, our strongest ally in the middle east: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/25/president-allegedly-dumps-israeli-prime-minister-dinner/
12. Obama says Israel should return to its 1967 border. (Does he think we should give Texas back to Mexico too?): http://matzav.com/obama-calls-for-israel-palestine-talks-on-1967-borders
13. Obama scolds Supreme Court Justices at State of the Union Address while lying: http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html
14. Obama takes personal credit for killing Osama bin Laden (compare to George W Bush’s comments after capturing Saddam Hussein): http://savingcommonsense.blogspot.com/2011/05/contrasting-speeches-of-bush-on-saddam.html
15. Obama wants electricity rates to “skyrocket”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
16. Obama only talks to war commander once in 10 weeks. (How bizarre is it for the Commander-in-Chief not to communicate with his general during war time?): http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/gibbs-explains-why-the-president-has-only-talked-to-general-mcchrystal-once-in-10-weeks.html
17. Obama wants to circumvent the War Powers Act. (Is he above the law?):
18. Obama wants to bypass Congress on the debt ceiling. (Does he think he is king?): http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-18563_162-20076575-6.html?assetTypeId=30&blogId=
19. Obama wants U.S. to submit our laws to the world court: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116552
20. Obama releases a birth certificate that is most likely a fake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY&feature=youtu.be
21. Obama is a serial liar: http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+serial+liar&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GZHY_en
22. Obama lost over half a billion dollars of our money on various solar scams, which its own administration admits were awarded without adequate due diligence, and which were a probable result of cronyism: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/277124, http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/09/14/breaking-white-house-pressured-omb-to-approve-solyndra-loan-before-due-diligence-complete/,http://tucsoncitizen.com/compoundcaptive/2011/10/22/solar-scam-on-taxpayers-and-the-rich-get-richer/ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/wasting_green_on_greenies_no_more_Ty6EyjqLhb0hAHKgpRcR3L
23. Obama’s stimulus cost $278,000 per job: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-s-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-job_576014.html
24. Obama has blatantly ingnored the Constitution in at least 7 instances: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1437376
25. Obama was absent from the Supercommittee deliberations. This absence was unbelievable to me. Here was the chance to get something done on the deficit, and Obama was bouncing around the world condemning America. Just imagine how an strong leader in the White House would be engaged in that process. http://www.northstarwriters.com/2011/11/13/lack-of-obama-leadership-leads-to-supercommittee-failure/
26. Obama says he is the fourth best president in history (better than Washington, better than Jefferson, etc). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE
27. Obama had close associations with outspoken hater of America Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentenat terrorist Bill Ayers. (No white Republican candidate would have gotten away with that!) http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html
28. Obama proposes a new legal system in which citizen suspects could be imprisoned without trial. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/us/politics/23detain.html
29. Obama stops the Keystone pipeline and our offshore drilling but is party to allowing (through the Ex-Im Bank) subsidies to the Brazilian oil company and its offshore drilling, perhaps because his liberal pal George Soros owns shares. http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=xWmsoAP-HoE#!, http://www.politisite.com/2010/06/21/soros-invested-in-petrobras-days-before-obama-invested-billions-special-prosecutor-needed/
30. The U.S. capital Christmas tree pays homage to Obama but not Jesus. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-capitol-christmas-tree-pays-homage-obama-not-jesus
31. During the Chrysler bankruptcy, Obama violated the Fifth Amendment and more than 150 years of bankruptcy law by illegally treating secured creditors worse than unsecured creditors. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32074
32. While running for President, Obama had promised that he would not have any lobbyists working in his administration. However, by February 2010, he had more than 40 lobbyists working in his administration. http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/obama-makes-mockery-his-own-lobbyist-ban
33. In 2011, after Boeing had hired 1,000 new employees to work at its new factory in South Carolina, the Obama administration ordered Boeing to shut down the factory, because the factory was non-union. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/business/21boeing.html?_r=3
34. The Obama administration pressured Ford to pull adds that told the truth about bailout money for General Motors and Chrysler. http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-administration/2011/09/27/wh-pressures-ford-pull-bailout-ad
35. The Obama administration used racially motivated actions to withdraw the case against Black Panthers who were intimidating voters. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/us/07rights.html
36. Obama outrageously ramped up the bureacracy by appointing numberous Czars, probably in opposition to the Consitution which gives the Senate right of approval for such posts. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59071-feingold-questions-obama-czars
37. Obama wants to rid the U.S. of private health insurance. http://www.breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-explains-how-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/
38. The Obama administration gives over 1300 waivers to his own health care law. http://www.breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-explains-how-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/
39. Obama puts self-described communists in his administration (including Van Jones, Anita Dunn, and others). http://www.breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-explains-how-his-health-care-plan-will-eliminate-private-insurance/ , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FVEe7wCzs
40. Obama reneged on promises to be the most transparent administration and not to hire lobbyists. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/politics/25caribou.html , http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-reporters-grill-gibbs-over-selected-questions-for-obama/, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11449 , http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090128/pl_politico/18128
41. Obama defends public schools and the teachers unions but sends his own kids to private schools while eliminating vouchers for kids who cannot afford private schools. http://theweek.com/article/index/207598/should-obama-send-his-kids-to-public-school , http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31163
42. Obama promises to cut the deficit but adds half again as much debt as all previous presidents combined. http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+deficits&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=A1b&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsu&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8OoET9TNFKz_sQLao6iRCg&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1122&bih=837
Chuckle
we are going to throw the election “shoeless joe jackson” style it appears.
I can’t believe we are not united to defeat Obama.
Yes, a letter from one of the major pro-life organizations.
Did other endorsements of Romney warrant breaking news?
Defeat Obama!
Breaking news??
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I was thinking the same thing. I guess we can start putting anti-obama things in breaking news now even if they aren’t breaking news?
I am not able, by my religious beliefs, to support a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage liberal. It would be disobedience to God.
It’s a position letter released by one of the nation’s major pro-life organizations. No different than any other major group announcing their support or lack thereof for Romney.
Just because it’s sort of anti-Romney doesn’t mean it isn’t major news
Like David, when confronted by God through Nathan for adultery and murder, put his life at the mercy of God for judgment. David’s firstborn son with Bathsheba, was called home after one week. His second son with Bathsheba was Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived and even though not the heir, became king.
America needs to follow David, and finally do what is right, not convenient.
It’s not BREAKING NEWS. Come on, be honest.
I agree. Do what’s right.
I’m also reminded of Abraham’s nephew Lot looking on the good pasturage in the lowland plains and going to live in the cities of the plains.
Sodom and Gomorrah seemed inviting, but God’s man Abraham, resisted the ease of the plains, the sell-out of principle, the softness of living, and stayed in the rugged country of crags, mountains, difficulty and hardship.
He even had to save his nephew from marauders who frequented the plains.
And he had to plead for Lot’s life when God determined to destroy the cities of the plains for their moral depravity.
Rejecting women, the men of the plains determined they would have relations with the “men” who were visiting Lot, the same angels who blinded those homosexual hedonists and forced Lot out in flight to the mountains before God destroyed the cities with fire and brimstone.
The GOP with its Ann Coulter compromise — the so-called 3rd way, focus on riches and not on morality — is actually the way to destruction. It is a broad way that leads to destruction.
With Abraham in the mountains or with Lot in the plains.
The GOP has chosen the plains.
Vote Goode Not Evil (the lesser of evils is still evil)
As long as Romney is electable, his stances on Abortion along with other conservative ideals such as gun rights or homosexual marriage do not matter.
Electability is most important.
This is what Ive been told by more than a few FR folks.
(I’m writing in Palin, screw Romney)
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