This information clearly contradicts what the Romney camp reported publicly in January. That is unacceptable and raises a serious issue for pro-lifers who have embraced him as a pro-life candidate. Posted on 07/11/2012 7:55:12 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
As presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney surged in fundraising after the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, new questions have arisen about the candidates potential ties to a company known for its disposal of aborted fetuses.
Mother Jones reports the reality of Romney’s downplayed connection with Stericycle who provides what is, perhaps, one of the most despicable business services in our nation. A medical waste company, Stericycle is infamous for its willingness to go to various abortion centers and pick up the remains of aborted babies and dispose of them as medical waste. Federal documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission show the dates in which Romney reports being connected with his investment company don’t match up with the dates in which he was listed as being involved with a large investment in Stericycle, which leads us to ask if he was connected with Stericycle at times they were disposing of aborted fetuses.
Originally reported by the Huffington Post in January, Romney’s camp managed to avoid it as a campaign issue by insisting, as the news outlet reports:
“By the time Bain Capital [Romney’s investment firm] had made the investment in Stericycle, he had left the firm to run the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He maintained ownership in Bain and kept holdings in its private equity funds, which included Stericycle stock, but he had no say in the managerial or strategic decisions at the firm, according to Bain officials.”
However, recent documents from the Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commission filed by Romney’s firm show that the timing wasn’t quite how Romney portrayed it. The document from November 22, 1999, reports, “W. Mitt Romney (“Mr. Romney”) is the sole stockholder, sole director, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and President of BCI VI Inc,” (SEC FORM SC 13D) in the Stericycle investment.
That means Romney was an active member of the firm when the $75 million investment was made in Stericycle. Stericylce isn’t just a medical waste business that is above board. As recently as last year, Stericylce was cited for improper disposal of fetuses in Texas. For a quick rundown of some news articles about Stericycle’s seedy history, click here. You will find a list of fines, truck leasing companies breaking contracts with them because of their fetus disposal business, and other serious controversies that the pro-life candidate must distance himself from by addressing these issues and either showing us proof there was no abortion activity back then or publicly addressing the wrongdoing and breaking his tie with them in keeping with his pro-life conversion, rather than simply misleading the American people about the dates he was there. It’s a concern if Romney actually was the “sole shareholder” as the SEC documents say, unquestionably say he was. You can read the filings from the SEC documents here and here. (Simply do a search within them for the name “Romney” and it will show you the relevant shareholder information.)
This information clearly contradicts what the Romney camp reported publicly in January. That is unacceptable and raises a serious issue for pro-lifers who have embraced him as a pro-life candidate.
There are too many unanswered questions to let this issue be a non-issue in this race. The man running on a pro-life platform actually was the “sole shareholder” in a company that made a $75 million investment in a company that has for an indeterminate amount of time profited directly from from the shedding of innocent blood. Their work helps polluted the land with bloodshed, putting fetuses in incinerators and waste areas. Stericycle is evasive in its responses to those who question its abortion business, claiming that abortion is only a “small portion” of its business, which is only true on a technicality. There are only a few hundred abortion centers in the nation and many more medical facilities that need waste services; however, Stericycle is the largest provider of disposing of fetal remains. Stop Stericycle.com reports:
Aside from the fact that we have recorded phone calls of Stericycle’s own representatives admitting that they accept fetal remains, many people are confused about Stericycle’s waste acceptance policy. The vaguely worded policy does not mention fetal remains, but rather craftily states that “complete human remains” are unacceptable. Stericycle has told the Campaign to Stop Stericycle (CSS) that it does not know when a fetus is considered to be human, and that the determination is up to the abortion mill and state law. Obviously, abortion mills never admit that aborted babies are human.
Additionally, during an undercover investigation, the Campaign to Stop Stericycle obtained a hypothetical contract for an abortion mill in which the pickup of fetal remains was included. CSS was also informed that the abortion mill would receive “incinerate only” stickers so that the fetal remains would be incinerated.
Furthermore, Stericycle is currently under government investigation in the state of Texas for illegally dumping aborted fetuses into a municipal landfill. During the initial investigation, Stericycle representatives told the government that “medical waste containing fetuses or tissue should be sent for incineration,” and that aborted fetuses in Texas should be transported to Stericycle’s plant in Apopka, Florida to be incinerated.
Because of such a clear controversy of pro-life issues, and the reports which show that the Romney’s investment firm ultimately profited $49.5 million from the Stericycle investment. There are two important questions we must address:
First, we do not have any evidence that the aborted fetal remains pick-ups began after Romney left the firm. Records like this are not easily available unless one knows what he is seeking exactly. StopStericycle.com has records from 2003, which is after Romney left, but until Stericycle or Romney can provide evidence that Stericycle’s suddenly started its business with fetuses after Romney sold his investment, we can’t conclusively be satisfied that was the case.
Second, Romney claims a pro-life conversion, though he does allows for exceptions in certain cases. He must address his relationship with the abortion profiteer. Even if some evidence exists showing perhaps it was after he sold his investment, Stericycle began this practice, Romney needs to address this to pro-lifers because he is running on a pro-life platform but is tied in some ways to a business linked to abortion since clearly the dates of his involvement were not as he reported.
We are a nation that endorses and sanctions the shedding of innocent blood, and we must draw a clear and bold line in the pro-life community that doesn’t allow for a blur that might have occurred in the name of business.
Romney cannot remain silent on this issue. After the inconsistencies about the dates, we know, it’s not enough to assume a conclusion that they didn’t pick up fetuses then.
According to Stericycle, “We became a publicly traded company in 1996, and emerged as North America’s largest provider of medical waste services in 2000.
So when did fetus pick up begin? How does the now pro-life Romney address this? The lines blur too much, and while we hope that some evidence may exist to show that Stericycle did not get involved in the abortion industry until after Romney left, we have not seen that. We’d like to.Bound4LIFE is still pursuing information on this story and searching for documents and updates; we will bring you updates as we have them.
Are you kidding me?
The absurdity of far Lefty Mother Jones, undoubted rabid supporter of abortion centers on every street corner if only they could manage it, trying to make mileage on someone being connected to an enterprise that has to clean up the human waste, is of a level I would find hard to match in my lifetime.
Fifty million abortions and counting...? Excellent!
Obviously necessary disposal of the abortive human baby body parts? "One of the most despicable business services in our nation..."
Does Mother Jones' staff realize how utterly bombastic and contemptible they are here?
Tell us Mother Jones, what did you expect to happen with the body parts?
Folks, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if you own mutual fund stocks, there's a very strong likelihood that you too are holding Stericycle stock in your portfolio.
The poor nimrods at Mother Jones have fallen, and they can't get up.
Okay, here's where the pedal hits the metal. If you are against abortion, then why not step up and start a concern that would become qualified to do so, then start picking up the remains of these aborted human beings, and bury them with dignity in mass graves.
If a large farm were purchased, cleared, and a new cemetary/memorial were developed, it would make one of the most stark memorials to this genocide that there could possibly be.
Until then, someone has to dispose of the body parts even their own biological incubators didn't give a damn about.
Nobody has stepped up to claim these unborn children. So when you get right down to it, we all probably share some level of responsibility here.
You read it wrong. Susan Michelle Tyrrell of Bound4Life, the author of this piece, wrote those words, not Mother Jones.
“Medical waste disposal is kinda specialized and someone’s gotta do it.”
True, as long as abortion is legal. I wonder if they have a marketing department?
Stericycle - no fetus can beat us!
Oh yes, he’s serious. He’s also the all or nothing freeper who was against the partial birth abortion ban because it did not ban all abortions. The Roe v Wade nin place and in need of repeal but lacking the political numbers to get it done, some legislators sought to focus Americans on the heinous nature of abortion on demand as expressed in partial birth abortion. But this poster now running for president was against passing the bill because it did not do ALL he demanded. He was and is more than willing to continue the slaughter in order to empower himself as the all or nothign man.
I’m not going to pass on investing in a well-run, profitable garbage can maanufacturer because of what lands in their garbage cans. Come on ...
If you can’t see the moral difference there is probably little I can say to you that will help.
No, it is not so clear EV. Bain Capitol profited at a time when this company was treating radiation and other chemcial waste material.
It is not clear at all when the unborn baby part of it happened, but it appears to be well after Romney (2002) was completely away from it, and (2004) when Bain had divested itself of it...some time after 2008 (which happens to be when? When Obama came to power, imagine that!)
If they profited from the actual disposal of true waste material in the years before, I have no problem with that. Bully for them for making a wise investment...it what we do in the free market.
This is a hit piece trying to drudge up old news on Romney and throw anything they can up against the wall in the hopes it will stick and divert conservatives and independents from the real issue which is Obama and his disasterous handling of America.
That is not a poster child for Romney...though I admit at this point to hoping he will beat Obama since he is all we have left.
What it is is a factual and deliberate look at the issue which does not subscribe to the intended attack on Romney and diversion of interest away from Obama.
Thank you... that is also exactly my thoughts on the matter.
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Yes. The left is obviously trying to drudge this up to fracture the vote on Romney’s side when a true look into it makes it obvious.
This was all talked about during the primaries and it didn’t stick then and Romney went on and won anyway. Here’s to hoping the same occurs this fall.
Two, I work in the waste industry. Stericycle takes all medical waste, not just human tissue that used to be babies. They do not perform abortions.
This is like going after a corpse yard for taking murder victims.
It’s ironic. Romney stridently supports abortion on demand since 1970, signs $50 co-pay taxpayer-funded abortions into “law,” thinks judges make our laws, thinks the right to live is up to a democratic vote instead of God-given and therefore unalienable, and profiteers to the tune of $50 million dollars on the killing of millions of little children, and I’m the one who is demonized for pointing out the obvious facts of the case. It’s amazing. Astounding. Awe-inspiring. Unbelievable, almost.
Actually, that is a ‘fictional planet’ near the star Kolob.
You are welcome. It is sad to see such an article on FR from such a source trying to attack Romney.
It is furthering the eforts of the left...and a lame effort at that IMHO.
I suspect we have a few “sleeper accounts” from groups like media matters or dummies which are just posting for the weak minded.
useful idiots are useful for a reason.
People here are intelligent enough to study this particular issue and arrive at a conclusion that is at odds with yours. How much of your indignation at other Freepers is feigned for dramatic effect?
It all comes down to whether or not you believe little babies are “waste.”
Apparently they are to Romney Republicans.
Which, frankly, at this point is not much of a surprise.
If folks will justify this they will likely justify just about anything for political expediency.
You see, at this point this is less about Romney than it is about “conservatives.”
Disgusting you are. 
Disgusting you are.
None.
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