To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (668731 ) 8/23/2012 2:58:33 PM From: Alighieri Read Replies (1) | Respond to Predictable on your part...but a gaffe none the less...match this (credit to john mccain)...and that was before the current election...I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it. ” (Joan Vennochi, “Romney’s Revolving World,” The Boston Globe, 3/2/06) FLOP : “When I am asked if I am pro-choice or pro-life, I say I refuse to accept either label .” (Glen Warchol, “This Is The Place, But Politics May Lead Romneys Elsewhere,” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2/14/99) FLIP: “I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard . I will not change any provisions of Massachusetts’ pro-choice laws.” (2002 Romney-O’Brien Gubernatorial Debate, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 10/29/02) “Yesterday, Romney also aimed to head off confusion about his stance on abortion rights by answering a Mass National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League questionnaire with mostly abortion-rights positions . He offered the questionnaire to the press even before he returned it to MassNARAL...” FLOP : "Romney said he had a change of heart on the issue after speaking with a stem-cell researcher, Dr. Douglas Melton. Romney claims Melton said ‘Look, you don’t have to think about this stem cell research as a moral issue, because we kill the embryos after 14 days.’ ‘It hit me very hard that we had so cheapened the value of human life in a Roe v. Wade environment that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life,’ Romney says.” (Karen Tumulty, “What Romney Believes,” Time, 5/21/07) businessinsider.com
