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.
They most certainly are not looking out for the prolife movement. Beware.
Secondly, who cares what a company was doing LAST YEAR when Romney may have been involved with them 13 years prior?
It's foolish, as are you. We know well Romney's past on this issue. We know his move towards a prolife view is stated to have come after the period in question.
Your post does the work of the Obama campaign which is precisely why Mother Jones and The Huffington Post have run with this material and their chosen spin.
Your notion that somehow our problem is too much “purity” is absurd.
I see. Thanks for the heads up.
I pray that at some point you all realize where Romney is taking you.
It’s a moral wasteland.
And the Left will laugh at your hypocrisy every step of the way. Why are you surprised?
That you believe this says EVERYTHING we need to know about you.
Let’s make a comparison of notions. If Romney were profiting froma company which harevsted and sold the body parts of murdered unborn children, then he would be exploiting the slaughter of alive unborn children. How much different would that be from EV exploiting the slaughter to empower himself because he will accept nothing but ALL abortions banned and is willing that tens of thousands of alive unborn children be ‘sacrificed’ in order to empower his all or nothing demands? Not much difference, except Romney as far I have been able to discover has not profited fromt eh harvesting of body parts from aborted children, but EV has been trying to empower himself on their carcasses for a decade that I’m aware of.
Let’s make a comparison of notions. If Romney were profiting froma company which harevsted and sold the body parts of murdered unborn children, then he would be exploiting the slaughter of alive unborn children. How much different would that be from EV exploiting the slaughter to empower himself because he will accept nothing but ALL abortions banned and is willing that tens of thousands of alive unborn children be ‘sacrificed’ in order to empower his all or nothing demands? Not much difference, except Romney as far I have been able to discover has not profited from the harvesting of body parts from aborted children, but EV has been trying to empower himself on their carcasses for a decade that I’m aware of.
Should get him a lot of democrat votes.
LifeNews is joined at the hip with the Romney campaign, via James Bopp and NRTL. They're a mouthpiece, nothing else.
No matter how you twist it.
How many state’s ballots are you on?
Ask me along about Labor Day.
Left-Wing Blogs Falsely Attack Romney on Abortion, Stericycle
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 7/4/12 5:55 PMAt a time when the pro-life movement is coming together to support Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over pro-abortion President Barack Obama, left-wing blogs are working overtime to sow seeds of doubt and distrust about the man who converted to the pro-life position on abortion. ...Left-wing blog Mother Jones hopes to make Romney look duplicitous on abortion by tying him to a company, Stericycle... in the process, it hopes to confuse pro-life advocates who are supporting Romney into thinking that somehow he was the owner and operator of Stericycle and somehow approved of its business disposing the bodies of victims of abortion...
Bain itself — after Romney left [Bain in 1999] — divested from Stericycle well before it began its abortion-connected operations.
As Mother Jones notes: “In 2001, the Bain-Madison Dearborn partnership that had invested in the company sold 40 percent of its holdings in Stericycle for about $88 million—marking a hefty profit on its original investment of $75 million. The Bain-related group sold the rest of its holdings by 2004. It was not until six years later that anti-abortion activists would target Stericycle for collecting medical waste at abortion clinics.”
That Romney wasn’t involved in, approving of, familiar with, or even involved in the company at the time of the Stericycle-aborted bodies disposal business, is further proven by the documentation of the pro-life Stop Stericycle campaign. The campaign began in January 2011 — over a decade after Romney was no longer involved in Bain Capital.
Sorry. EV discounts LifeNews.
That tells me everything I need to know about you, Tom. Your children are surely ashamed of you...
Pure, unadulterated pro-Romney spin.
I would be surprised if Romney staffers didn’t have a hand in writing that drivel.
You’re the one who should be ashamed for saying such a thing.
Being anti-abortion is only one-half of the deal Tom -- the other half is not bringing shame upon your children...and that's what you're doing.
Hogwash.
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