Posted on 06/20/2012 7:41:28 AM PDT by hocndoc
Romney is definitely not my first choice but I was encouraged to see this article by Dr. John Willke.
Interesting brief image about Barbara Bush and her knitting. She remained pro-abortion, but evidently she stuck to her knitting while in the White House and refrained from saying anything.
No. Are you going to vote for barry by not voting?
Sometimes all we can hope for is silence.
However, in this case, Mitt Romney hasn’t been silent.
I’m praying for our Nation and that the Lord will give us the leader we need, one who will follow Him, and not the one we deserve.
Is this the original Dr Wilke from 30+ years ago ???
or his son ???
The Dr Wilke then was just about THE authority on exposing abortion...
The problem is that Romney is all about political expediency. He will say ANYTHING to get votes.
It was interesting to read Dr. Wilke's account of what happened with GHWB in 1980. However, there are two big points that need to be considered:
1. 1980 was the first time that abortion had ever been an issue in a national election. It wasn't unusual that Bush hadn't ever really considered the pro-life position (and note that in the end he still wanted a "pro-choice-by-state" approach). Abortion has been an issue for Romney's ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER and he had been fully aware of pro-life positions the entire time, yet he remained devoutly pro-abortion; it seems all to convenient that his position changed when he decided to run for president.
2. The fact still remains that whatever transpired between Wilke and GHWB, Bush was never really pro-life. I'm sick of supporting politicians who claim to be pro-life to get votes and then ignore it later.
If Romney was genuinely pro-life HE would get up and tell the story of what changed his mind, HE would explain how wrong he was -- Romney hasn't done anything like this. His advisers told him that he was going to need to say he was pro-life to get the nomination and that's what he did.
I don’t understand your question. This article supports the fact that Romney is truly prolife.
This is THE Dr. Willke.
See the note on the bottom of the article at http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/romneys-conversion-on-abortion-is-is-authentic
Ted Kennedy went from pro life to pro choice because he saw which way the political winds were blowing in the Democratic party.
George H.W. Bush went towards the pro life position because he thought it was advantageous politically in the Republican party.
Mitt Romney advocated a pro choice position while running in liberal Massachusetts and a pro life position which running in the Republican primary.
I don’t believe any of those men had strong feelings either way, they simply adopted the position the would confer the most political advantage to them.
Romney told this story during the debates.
I don’t doubt the word of either Dr. Willke or Dr. Hurlbut. For one thing, the testimony goes back to that veto by Romney of the embryonic stem cell bill and the morning after pill bill.
Dr. Hurlbut reports:
“Finally, I was impressed by both his clarity of mind and sincerity of heart. He recognized that this was not a matter of purely abstract theory or merely pragmatic governance, but a crucial moment in how we are to regard nascent human life and the broader meaning of medicine in the service of life.”
Neither do I; however, I believe Romney to be a pragmatic narcissist who has a long track record of masking his true agenda.
When he makes claims like “I was never pro-choice” and “Every decision I made in MA came down on the side of life”, it is clear he is lying through his teeth.
To the extent Romney has any real conviction on the subject, I have no doubt he is still “pro-choice”. The best we can hope for with Romney is that he doesn't really care about “abortion rights” OR the lives of the unborn and will support pro-life positions, as long as it is politically expedient to do so.
If Romney is elected, pro-lifer’s will need to keep enormous pressure on Romney to live up to his “pro-life” claims and be careful NEVER to trust him on issues of life, especially when it come to Supreme Court nominees.
The first time I saw photos of cut up and napalmed babies was in his material...
He was one of the leaders in pro-life ...
In the 1970-80s when he was exposing abortion for the evil murder that it was, and for the need to overturn Roe V Wade, Willard was not listening...
In 1994 when Willard ran for US Senate and in 2002 when he ran for Gov of MASS Willard promised to “sustain the law of the land” Roe V Wade...
During a debate in 2008 Willard told about his aunt who had an abortion back in the 60s when it was illegal and he said thats why he was pro-abortion...for the need for SAFE abortions...
and then he boasted he was proud of his own mother who had ran for US Senate on an abortion platform in 1970 again while abortion was illegal...THREE YEARS BEFORE ROE V WADE...
The phony “pro-life” thingy is just for political expediency...
This cycle.
Romney has told the story of his conversion in the debates and in interviews. He followed through by vetoing anti-life bills.
The Legislature over-rode his veto of the requirement to dispense the morning after pill to rape victims at hospitals.
He vetoed a bill in 2005 that would have allowed embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts http://www.lifenews.com/2005/05/27/bio-997/ The Legislature over-rode that veto, too.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/31/154950.shtml
Your timeline is way off - Romney’s conversion was in 2004/2005.
The story about his aunt was told in October, 1994.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Agree. He hasn’t even expressed regret over the fact that the cheap (and sometimes free) abortions he enabled in Massachusetts are still happening today.
The story about his aunt dying during an illegal abortion in the 1960s was also told by Willie Mitty during a debate in 2008...
Thats when I personally heard about it fir the first time...
I didnt know the guy and I thought he was going to say thats why he was pro-life...
BUT NOOOOOOOOOO..
he went on to say thats why he was for SAFE abortions...
that if abortion had been legal then his aunt would not have died..
From him in living color LIVE during the debate...
followed up by the story of how proud he was of his Mommy Lenore pushing abortions in her platform for US Senate...
I was sick to my stomach...
the guy was a twisted freak..
So a doctor calls the president "Mr." but the president calls a doctor by a title?
And you wonder why I bring up medical arrogance?
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