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.
Thank you for actually showing some vigilance in research, unlike the guy who just thinks it makes for a cool name.
I had a friend who bought a liquor store. He was looking at cash flow ~ and next thing you know a crazy guy in the building set fire to his store on the first floor first.
Do you know how fast liquor stores burn? Can you imagine how many years it takes for any insurance company to pay the first claim when there's been an arson?
He finally got his money back after the arrest and conviction of the crazy guy.
At the time he bought that store I told him that liquor stores are going to exist but why did he need to be one of the owners?
He never had a good answer, and after all the trouble he had with that one he never bought another one!
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To help make sure Romney loses the election.
Agonizingly so! Along with the use of ‘irregardless’.
I’m running, for one.
I’m the author of this:
http://www.equalprotectionforposterity.com/the-equal-protection-for-posterity-resolution.html
You’re tied to an entire country that disposes of aborted babies...so what was your point again?
Basic human decency.
If you can't see the difference between being born in and living in a country that allows the killing of little babies and callously profiting to the tune of fifty million dollars from it, there's not much I can do to help you.
It's a nonsense argument.
Do you think that justifies Romney’s actions since 1970 in support of abortion on demand.
The silence is deafining because this first came out during the primaries and is now being resurrected by the left.
I do not find the story credible.
I’ve read it all, from the time in the primaries when I was opposed to Romnay as a candidate and supporting Cain, then Santrorum, etc., to bow, when Romney has the delegates to become the nominee and trhe left is in attack mode because they cannot defend the awful record of the President. My readings have included the SEC documents, these latest reports, and the articles from before.
Romney and Bain indicate he left Bain in Feb 1999 to lead up the Olympics but maintained some signatory and other involvement until complete seperation in 2002. That is not unsusual for an executive.
The deal with Stericylce went down in Nov 1999. The SEC papers indicate, as Bain contends, that Romney was a signator and could potentially benefit, but that does not mean he was activley involved with making the deal in the least. He was in SLC working hard to save the Olympics at the time.
In addition, Bain sold all of its holding in Stericyle in 2004 and it wasn’t until years later that the allegations about the aborted babies came up and the dates/timeline regarding when they actually used those babies is not made clear. It is a typical conviction by inference from what I can read. Has all the makings of a hit piece.
He was long gone, and Bain had sold its interests. At any rate, this all happened well before Romney own admission that he had a major life event that changed his heart with regards to abortion, making him strongly pro-life which he maintains to this day.
That’s why you are not hearing anything. It is, IMHO, a lame attempt by the left and Obama to resurrect something that has already been openly discussed.
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Jeff, I have to say, you’re a poster child for why Romney Republicanism is so dangerous.
Romney profited at least fifty million dollars from his investment in Stericycle. That is crystal clear.
What is your purpose in posting this article?Isn't it obvious? S/he's hoping you'll stay home so the REAL abortionist gets re-elected.
Ditto.
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