Gov. Romney said over and over again that he was severely conservative. Romney supported personhood amendments (to make all abortions and the use of contraception illegal) in Mississippi and the Congress.
Additionally, he picked Congressmen Paul Ryan to be his vice president. Ryan co-sponsored legislation with Todd Akin, which Jeff Flake supported, to redefine rape to limit the rape exception for abortions.
Todd Akin summed up conservative beliefs: Women who are raped have natural self-defenses against unwanted sperm. Congressmen Steve King stated, “I’ve never heard of a girl getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbit, “You just have to close your eyes,” when discussing a forced ultrasound before an abortion is so much like conservative leader Clayton Williams comparing rape to bad weather, having stated: “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” Then, Ryan-endorsed Wisconsin State Rep. Roger Rivard said, “Some girls rape so easy.” Finally, we had Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock implying its God’s will that some women get raped and impregnated.
Romney, do you stand with your conservative base to eliminate all abortions, the belief that birth control leads to a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to Christian values, and will you support the candidates above? Mr. Romney, time to come out and prove you are a true conservative!
Nancy Prieve
Mesa
truth posted at 3:49 pm on Wed, Oct 31, 2012.
Richard Mourdock caused a uproar this week when he said that pregnancy resulting from rape was "something that God intended." Mourdock, a tea party conservative. Mitt Romney, who had endorsed Mourdock the day before the debate, said the comments "do not reflect " his views. But did not withdraw his endorsement.
Why free contraception matters: Free access to birth control could prevent up to 2/3 of U.S. abortions, a new study has found. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, and those, more than 40% end in abortion. But when researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine offered more than 9,000 mostly low income women and teens free birth control, the number of accidental pregancies in the group fell to between 60-80% below the national average. LifeScience.com
No reason to fear the HPV vaccine. Nearly half of all teenage girls in the U.S. are not vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus-partly because their parents worry that getting the vaccine will encourage them to become sexually active. But a new study shows that those fears are misplaced. Girls who receive the shots, which protects against cervical, throat,and other cancer later in life, are no more likely to have sex at an early age than those who do not. Researchers followed 500 girls for 3 years after they got the first of 3 HPV shots, at age 11 or 12, and found that they were no more prone to contracting a sexually transmitted disease, becoming pregnant, or requesting contraceptives than were girls who skipped the shots. That results "really demonstrates that getting the HPV vaccination is not some how a signal to start having sex " Indiana University School of Medicine, USA Today
Engaged Voter posted at 5:17 pm on Wed, Oct 31, 2012.
Romney also said that Federal Disaster Aid was immoral.
In the wake of Hurricanse Sandy, will he stick to his position or flip-flop again?
(Nevermind, he flip-flopped, just check the news!)
Cerulean posted at 5:44 pm on Wed, Oct 31, 2012.
Nancy,
I believe these persons are psychopaths. Anyone who would publicly comment on rape saying, “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” is a psychopath. Remember a psychopath is someone with a personality disorder that is characterized by “shallow emotions… lacking empathy, cold heartedness” etcetera (wiki). When Romney endorses a candidate who said, “pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended to happen.”, then he endorses the perverse idiocy of a psychopath.
Truth - you make some very astute observations about the benefits of birth control.
Bingo6 posted at 5:10 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
I hope the voters got a good look. Willards phony attempt. at staging a fake relief event for the people of this nation devasted by this unprecedented natural disaster realize that if he become supreme leader and your home and community is destroyed you. will be left in the gutter by the side of the road.
This arrogant royal is a monumental fraud.
Bluepoet posted at 7:23 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
Nancy,
Unfortunately, your use of the term "severely conservative" is an oxymoron. Thanks to the Tea Party, and the government blocker Republicans, true conservatives are extinct. Romney, if elected, will not be effective, because he has no principles, and no vision, beyond the script given him, by his handlers...
He is nothing more than a window mannequin, just like Ronald Reagan, only without even the rudimentary acting skill of ol' Ronnie...
Btw, the same can be said of Obama, with the exception that, if he's elected, he has no reason to keep campaigning. Think about that...
Arizona Willie posted at 7:53 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
And the truly sad thing is that millions of Republican women will vote for these cretins who think women enjoy rape and that they can avoid pregnancy from being raped IF THEY WANT TO etc. etc.
I am beginning to believe that we don't need a citizenship test to vote --- we should have an IQ test with a minimum score of 70 at least to vote.
That would rule out at least half of the Republican voter base.
Accuracy posted at 8:50 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
Here is what Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said: “I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is distancing himself from Richard Mourdock’s comments. Romney has said that he does intend to take pro-life action, even if not pushing directly for legislation that targets abortion.
Romney wants to show conservative pro-life Americans that he does not really have any instinctive desires to wade in to the abortion issue as president.
But, Romney has said that he would still take action (as president) to cut funding of America's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. And President Obama is accusing Romney of trying "to cloud” the issue by "hiding" a pro-life agenda. Obama is telling women voters that Romney will try to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
xyno posted at 9:27 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
One of the many things Romney will do on the first day as potus, end the war, end poverty, end taxes on passive income, end planned parenthood, declare he is god of the earth.
Arizona Willie posted at 10:50 am on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
Well, xyno, out of 5 items you predicted ... you got one ( 1 ) right.
He would end taxes on unearned income from stocks and bonds etc. etc.
But not on savings accounts because only little people put money in savings accounts.
samkat posted at 3:39 pm on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
Nancy: What you really mean is that the ultra conservatives are the American Taliban. Do you have your burka ready? My guess is that you belong to the same cult as Mitts.
Rich posted at 7:33 pm on Thu, Nov 1, 2012.
“pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended to happen.”, then he endorses the perverse idiocy of a psychopath.
If God is omnipotent the statement logically follows. To deny it is to deny God's omnipotence. Hardly psychopathic on either side. Simply the old argument between pre-destination and free will. Calvinists would logically have to accept it. Existentialists would have to deny it. If you wanted to hedge your bet, you'd force rape pregnancies to term just to see what God had in mind. Of course, with God, you have to be careful, he might force over population to destroy humanity after they prepared the Earth for one of his more advanced creations from Alpha Centuri.