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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.Romney's assurances: On abortion, they fall short
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Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007
CAN PRO-LIFE Americans count on Mitt Romney to protect the unborn? Maybe, but Romney has not been convincing on this point.
In Sunday morning's Republican Presidential debate in Iowa, Romney was given the chance to respond to an ad by Sen. Sam Brownback that characterized Romney as pro-choice at heart.
Romney's response was to assert 10 times that he is pro-life. He said that he was always pro-life but that he adopted an "effectively pro-choice" position when running for office in Massachusetts. He also said that as governor of Massachusetts his actions were consistently pro-life.
That is not reassuring. It is a tacit admission that he told the people of Massachusetts what they wanted to hear, essentially saying he would govern according to state law and not his own personal beliefs, but then governing according to those personal beliefs.
In a 2002 forum with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien, candidate Romney said he would "preserve and protect a woman's right to choose," opposed a 24-hour waiting period before getting an abortion, said he would do nothng to make it harder for a woman to have an abortion, and denied accepting Massachusetts Citizens for Life's endorsement in his 1994 Senate race. He even said, "I don't accept either label, pro-choice or pro-life." What happened between 2002 and now?
Romney has given two accounts of his changing views on abortion. One is that he was pro-choice until 2005, when he became pro-life after researching stem cell issues. The other is that he was personally pro-life but refused to impose his views on the people of Massachusetts.
Both cannot be true. Which is it? We are not sure we care. But we do care that Romney has two stories that don't mesh and appears to have inadvertently admitted to taking a position on this issue because it was politically expedient to do so.
In Iowa, Romney's line that he is tired of people being "holier than thou" because they've been pro-life longer than he has was a good one. But it's not about who's been pro-life longer. It's about whether Romney really is pro-life. Despite his assurances, we, along with many conservatives, are not convinced he is.
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