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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney misled voters on his mom’s abortion stance (Salon)
Remember when pro-choice Senate candidate Mitt Romney said his mom, a former state senator, was also pro-choice? Guess again:
This is where the previously unreported Lenore Romney quote comes in. The Real Romney authors Michael Kranish and Scott Helman found a May 1970 story from a Owosso, Michigan, newspaper in which Lenore Romney says of the abortion issue:
I think we need to reevaluate this, but do not feel it is simple as having an appendectomy.
Im so tired of hearing the argument that a woman should have the final word on what happens to her own body. This is a life.
If anything that statement with its emphasis on women not having the final word would most accurately be characterized as anti-choice. The irony is that Mitt Romney is now arguably closer to his mothers actual 1970 position than he was when he ran as a pro-choice Senate candidate in 1994.
http://politics.salon.com/2012/01/12/romney_misled_voters_on_his_moms_abortion_stance/
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)i don't think it's going to be an issue. Interesting article though.
RandySF
(58,511 posts)It's about Mitt, the congenital liar.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)If he'd stoop to that level, I doubt there's any floor for this guy's duplicity.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)he'll probably re-use her with this quote--and pretend, in his frantic way, that no one notices his weathervane pronouncements.