** In April 2006 Romney signed [Boston
Globe] the Massachusetts health insurance plan that pays for even
elective abortions [Mass.
gov; official site MassResources.
org; CNS
News].
** Romney today falsely claims a 1981 court ruling [Boston
Globe; MittRomney.
com] about "medically necessary" [St. Petersburg
Times ; CNS
News] abortions forced him to provide tax-funded elective abortion into law, showing he prioritizes socialized "health care" over protecting kids, even when it pays to kill them.
** Romney signed the 2005 bill that promotes chemical abortions with Plan B [Boston
Globe; Mass.
gov;
Mass.gov/ legis].
** He gave a permanent seat on the Massachusetts health payment policy advisory board to the nation's leading abortionists at Planned Parenthood [
Mass.gov/legis].
** Romney claims to have been personally pro-life for many years [
CNN] but also claims a recent pro-life conversion on Nov. 9, 2004 while talking to Harvard researcher Douglas Melton about embryonic stem cells [Washington
Post; ABC
News ].
** However Romney still supports killing the babies of rapists. [
CNN]
** And Romney still openly supports killing those tiniest humans for embryonic research, which is the subject Dr. Melton spoke with him about, that supposedly made him pro-life. [NY
Times ]
** Harvard's Dr. Melton has even disputed Romney's account of their conversation [Boston
Globe; Washington
Post].
** Pro-life Romney even attended a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood [ABC
News].
** In October 2005 Romney asked the federal government for a waiver for a major increase in funding for abortion "counseling" and abortifacients [Boston
Globe].
** Romney appointed openly pro-abortion Democrat Matt Nestor to a district court [ABC
News ].
** Disputing a ruling on the side of life by his own state health department [Boston
Globe], Romney personally argued in December 2005 that pro-life hospitals must dispense abortifacients [Boston
Globe].
** During the years that Romney says he was personally pro-life he aggressively claimed to be second-to-none in asserting
abortion as an essential right . [Weekly
Standard]
** The Weekly Standard reports him telling the pro-abortion activists at NARAL, "you need someone like me in Washington" [Weekly
Standard].
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