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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Tue May 8, 2012, 04:33 PM May 2012

Romney to Fundraise With Plan B Maker Despite Denouncing Emergency Contraception as ‘Abortive Pills’

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/08/480240/romney-fundraiser-plan-b/?mobile=wp

Romney To Fundraise With Plan B Maker Despite Denouncing Emergency Contraception As ‘Abortive Pills’

By Josh Dorner on May 8, 2012 at 3:05 pm

Earlier this year, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney came out strongly against the Obama administration policy that will require health insurance plans to offer birth control coverage at no additional cost — one of the many important preventive health benefits women will receive as a result of Obamacare.

In particular, Romney denounced the fact that insurance plans would now be required to cover Plan B, a form of emergency contraception that he falsely referred to on numerous occasions as “abortive pills.” This is what Romney said in Colorado on February 6, 2012:

ROMNEY: This same administration said that the churches and the institutions they run, such as schools and let’s say adoption agencies, hospitals, that they have to provide for their employees free of charge, contraceptives, morning after pills, in other words abortive pills, and the like at no cost. Think what that does to people in faiths that do not share those views. This is a violation of conscience.

(Plan B works just like regular birth control pills and is not, in fact, an abortifacient.) The Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo reports that next week the Romney campaign will be doing a major fundraising blitz across Florida, including an event “at the Star Island manse of pharmaceutical magnate Phil and Pat Frost where dinner costs $50,000.”

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Romney to Fundraise With Plan B Maker Despite Denouncing Emergency Contraception as ‘Abortive Pills’ (Original Post) Hissyspit May 2012 OP
Hypocrisy is a Republican value. Scuba May 2012 #1
"I have friends who own the abortive pill company" n/t Enrique May 2012 #2
Mitt will say ProSense May 2012 #3
Now he'll probably take credit for inventing them. tanyev May 2012 #4
He'll get far more shit from the RWers over this than us. DCKit May 2012 #5
The Left should simply put out the news about the fundraiser bluestate10 May 2012 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague May 2012 #7
I really hope none of his advisers stop him MattBaggins May 2012 #8
K & R Scurrilous May 2012 #9

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
3. Mitt will say
Tue May 8, 2012, 04:48 PM
May 2012


...that he meant he was severely "constipated," not "conservative."

Give that man a big red rubber nose, he's earned it.



 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
5. He'll get far more shit from the RWers over this than us.
Tue May 8, 2012, 08:10 PM
May 2012

I think we can stand to leave this one alone - provided they find out about it.

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If anyone from here is still posting over at FR, please take care of this. It's guaranteed you won't be zotted... RmJb hates, hates, hates RMoney.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
6. The Left should simply put out the news about the fundraiser
Tue May 8, 2012, 08:17 PM
May 2012

without making comment. If the Left sneer and boo over this, they will just help Romney. STFU and let the rightwing zealots eat Romney's ass alive.

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