Romney misled voters on his mom’s abortion stance (Salon) [View all]

[RandySF]

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. … I’m 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 mother’s 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/