Pro-life activist group begins dogging Romney
Last night Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney held a private fundraiser at a posh supporter’s home outside of Denver, in Cherry Hill Village.
There to spotlight Romney’s pro-abortion past was a group from American Right to Life. Love the fancy people in the background of the picture above. (Click to enlarge.)
Many pro-lifers were skeptical of Romney in 2008, and I expect many more have been added to the list following Romney’s announcement last week that he will not sign Susan B. Anthony List’s pro-life pledge.
Add me to the latter list. I gave Romney the benefit of the doubt in 2008, but not this time, not since he has admitted wanting the freedom if elected president to appoint pro-abortion ideologues to his cabinet and government leadership posts, and also that he also wants to turn a blind eye toward the “thousands” of hospitals he knows are committing abortions while receiving Medicaid/Medicare funding.
The schism being created here is by old guard Republicans who have given the nod to yet another abortion pacifist. Romney is their guy.
Those Republicans should take note. What does it say that the Left loves the schism? In recent days both Huffington Post and Rachel Maddow have spotlighted this 2007 video by ARTL…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7y1HMZNJy0[/youtube]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Expose the candidate’s position on the security or lack there of, the preborn children, is a good indication of a heart of stone!
Will not vote for Mitt.
I Fear God….not men!
John The Baptist
Great video, says it all. LL
So if Romeny becomes to the nominee, does that mean you folks won’t vote for him?
Calling American Right to Life prolife is a stretch. This is the group after all that aggressively attacks people like Father Frank Pavone, Sarah Palin, Concerned Women for America, and even Jill Stanek and others for supposedly not being pro-life. No one is pro-life in their eyes. They spew more hate than Planned Parenthood and cause dissension in the pro-life movement.
Don’t confuse them with the respected pro-life group National Right to Life and don’t waste your time reporting on them. It’s not even a national organization. The four people you see in the picture? That’s about the extent of the organization.
I’ll still vote for Romney over Obama b/c you can’t get worse on abortion than Obama, and I believe Romney will do better for the country (not much better granted). But I sincerely hope someone else emerges.
I pray I am not in a situation of Obama vs. Romney. There’s such a subtle difference in many ways between the two.
sigh…I wonder who’s running on the Independent ticket…
Lol keep it up, Romney is the only viable candidate to go up against Obama and I mean that with 100% sincerity. Crazy eyes bachmann, Rick “google me” Santorum, Tim “snooze” pawlenty, et all do. not. stand. a. chance.
Romney is your only hope, so if the pro-life movement doesn’t get behind him, you might as well be casting a vote for Obama
I pray I am not in a situation of Obama vs. Romney. There’s such a subtle difference in many ways between the two.
I agree.
If Romney is the candidate, I bet he will pick a hard-core conservative to placate the prolifers. The question is: will this tactic work?
When Obama won in 2008, we counted it as a huge loss for the pro-life movement. We figured that a squishy Republican would be better than Obama.
We were wrong in every way. The violently pro-abortion president brought forth a great national discussion, sweeping out many pro-abortion Democrats and the squishy pro-nothing Democrats and Republicans — giving us a huge pro-life majority for the first time, ever.
Obama has been a great gift to the pro-life movement… as paradoxical as it seems.
As pro-lifers — we must remember that our first mission is changing hearts. We do not hope for a “secular salvation” as the result of any election. Laws of protection will come last, after America becomes a life- and family-affirming culture once again.
We don’t really care who wins the election — our job is to support strongly pro-life candidates, and keep the issue of protecting women and children in front of the public’s attention. 2010 proved that we can win hearts, even with a very pro-abortion President and an abortion-minded Congress.
So I disagree with Jane: Romney is not our “only hope.” Our hope is not in the Republican Party at all, or even in elections.
We don’t lose when a pro-abortion candidate wins; we lose when no one cares or talks about it anymore.
Jane,
Thanks. I appreciate that you come here and tell us what the future will bring. Got any stock tips or lottery numbers to share?
LOL
Lottery numbers are based on chance, elections are not. I’m telling you, you need someone much better than what the GOP is offering in order to unseat an incumbent
Do you have any advice on how to be more effective prolifers?
I looooovveee it when you guys do that!!!
So many so-called conservatives treat elections like sporting contests and want very badly to be on the winning team.
If conservatives don’t stand for right and against wrong, it makes little difference if they win or lose elections.
It is not just about winning the hearts of people. The bible is clear that the law is intended to punish and restrain the evil doer. It is the government’s job to restrain and punish the evil doers whether their hearts are changed or not. In fact, the less their hearts are changed, the more they need restrained.
We do not wait to change hearts and minds to punish murderers, kidnappers, thieves or rapists! The notion that we should wait for the changing of hearts and minds to outlaw abortion is just silly.
BS”D
I hate to agree with Ted Kennedy, but his 1994 debate retort calling Romney “multiple choice” was right on target. Expect to see Bachmann, Pawlenty, Santorum, or another candidate use this line in a future debate. Taking a nuanced yet principled stand on an issue is way different than politically opportunistic flip-flopping. Romney on abortion reminds one of John Kerry on Iraq–for it before he was against it before he was for it before he was against it.
Great quotation from Bachmann:
“Romney should reconsider the decision not to sign the Pledge as he reconsidered his position on the life issue during the last campaign.”
More than two years ago when b o raised his right hand and swore a false oath to the constitution the misery index was 7.83
Today the misery index is 12.67 and climbing, and the inflation, which is resulting from all the borrowing and spending by the federal government, has not yet reached it’s zenith.
When, not if, that occurs, the misery index will eclipse the benchmark set during Carter’s reign of error.
When Carter took office the misery index was 12.72 and four years later when he fled the scene of the crime it was 19.72
Under Jimmy’s watch it took four years for the misery index to worsen by 7 points.
While b o played his 73 round of golf in two years the misery index, unnoticed or un-noted by him, worsened by almost 5 points.
It is hard to imagine a presidential candidate that will not be able to ‘de-ordorize’ the White House.
The question is not , ‘Can the republicans offer a candidate who can remove b o?’, but ‘Who he/she will be?’ [It’s dirty work, but someone has to do it.]
I hope the economy improves and every american who wants to work is working, but I am not entertaining any illusions that it is likely to happen.
Mitt Romney and Donald Trump ought to audition for roles as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dummer.
Neither one of these clowns will receive the republican nomination. They both remind me of the C. Lewis’ ‘monopods’. Critters bouncing around on one foot from one contradictory position to the next.
Unfortunately, I think MR’s abortion views reflect the Mormon Church’s recent shift in theology on this issue. They no longer absolutely condemn abortion and now allow this abomination in certain circumstances, which IMHO, more-or-less leaves this up to the discretion of the woman. I think this has to do with a doctrine that is fuzzy on when en-soulment occurs in the Mormon faith. Most Churches get around this ‘fuzziness’ issue by assuming that en-soulment happens at conception, thus erring on the side of caution. Those of us who read the Bible know that a three-day old unborn Jesus just begotten inside of Mary was enough of a divine person to cause the unborn John the Baptist to leap inside of Elizabeths’w womb in response to the Holy Spirit. To me, anyway, that is proof that a person is present from the moment of conception.
This also explains his bizarre peddling around the Embryonic Stem cell issue.
So, I wonder if MR is simply sticking to his Doctrine.
I am surprised that no one has figured this out and asked him point-blank.
DarrellB,
Forgive me; you’ve missed my point.
The hearts of America are already turned against “murderers, kidnappers, thieves or rapists.” America knows that these are intolerable. That’s why Americans have laws to protect the innocent from these violent acts.
Yes…. we will fight for laws to protect the women and children. Elections do matter!
But desperate people will still seek abortion, and despicable people will still provide abortions — in large numbers — until the hearts of Americans are turned to see that abortion is rape, kidnapping and murder, all rolled into one violence against women and children.
We need to the laws to protect the innocent — but the laws won’t be effective, until we change the heart of our culture too. I don’t know which will come first — the change of law or the change of hearts — but we aren’t done until we have both.
Then we can set ourselves fully to providing the charity that the women and children need.
Meanwhile…. we should not settle for squishy polititians who give lip service to pro-life activists. There are ardent pro-lifers for us to support, and we are not afraid of pro-choicers revealing what their activism costs America.
After the effective disruption of their fundraiser, I’m sure Romney and everyone else attending the fundraiser thinks there are too many ARTL associates.
What a Joke said, “This is the group after all that aggressively attacks people like Father Frank Pavone, Sarah Palin, Concerned Women for America, and even Jill Stanek and others for supposedly not being pro-life.”
Where’s your evidence of this? If you can’t speak truth, please don’t open your mouth.
What a Joke said, “No one is pro-life in their eyes.”
What about the list of 26 people on their homepage? What you should of said was, “To National Right to Life, no one is pro-choice.”
Steve Ertelt said, “Don’t confuse them with the respected pro-life group National Right to Life”
Who respects NRTL? I’m curious, what does NRTL do? Please tell me, what do they do?
What does NRTL do? Collect a lot of money to fund salaries and pension plans and they hob nob with elitists in order to retain their seat at the table. Don’t ask what else they do. I don’t have an answer for that.
Danielle D Great post! Way to hold the Joke’s feet to the fire.
Romney’s failure to sign the pledge also makes one wonder what his Supreme Court appointments would look like. Everyone knows that if appointing judges is not the single-most important aspect of presidential powers in these highly contentious times, then it is at least a close second. That is one of the dangers of focusing too much on economic issues as some in the Party would like to do. From a pro-life and traditional values standpoint it is crucially important that our guy (or woman) gets in next time to at least preserve the center-right court, and hopefully expand it. Way too many decisions are 5-4, meaning that one more seat to the lefties would upset the apple cart. Our counterparts on the left are looking at this too.
And whom would Mitt appoint as Chief of Staff, the key person who grants access to the president? His failure to sign the pledge puts a big question mark on all of his appointments. It is critical that we have strong conservatives fill those roles, but with Mitt’s constantly re-inventing himself who knows where he really stands on things like this?
But if he ends up getting the nod, I’m 100% behind him. It is good to see recent polls showing the generic Republican candidate beating Obama.
Romney’s Supreme Court nominees would look exactly like those of the previous
Republican nominations. None of the Republican appointed justices support the God given, inalienable right to life of the pre-born child.
Notre Dame law professor, Charles Rice, points out that even if Roe is struck down (unlikely)
the laws pro-lifers put in place which end with. “And then you can kill the baby” will keep abortion legal for decades!!
Republicans always say they have “no litmus test” for child killing!
Shameful !!!!
Here is b o’s response when he backed off from his decision to require the veterans pay for their war injuries.
“Look, it’s an all volunteer force,” Obama complained. “Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn’t compute..” “I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country, “Obama continued “I wasn’t asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I’d have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation’s deficit.. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans.”
Ken, you realize that’s a fake quote, right? The satirist John Semmens wrote that.
Ken the Birther – have you heard of Snopes? Fact Checking in general? Or does everything that comes across your email suddenly become law? Between fake quotes and birther theories, I’m starting to wonder about you….
Why would any Christian acquiesce in voting for any politician who would advocate killing even one preborn child, let alone thousands or millions?
James Dobson said it best over ten years ago, when he pledged, “as long as God lets me live, I will never support a politician who would kill one innocent baby”. Unfortunately, he admitted to breaking that pledge, by voting for John McCain.
When man’s ways contradict God’s ways, we should: (1) warn the sinner, and (2) obey God.
Lord Jesus, give us wisdom, so that we are ever faithful
Maybe Romney can get with Al Gore and figure out what is happening with the weather patterns and women just having to many children? They are still listening to the U.N. and these same bed partners. They still meet together and have the same neighborhood fund raisers and most Americans and the church still just keep sleeping?
In an appearance Monday in New York City, former Vice President Al Gore, prominently known for his climate change activism, took on the subject of population size and the role of society in controlling it to reduce pollution.
He offered some ideas about what might be done for females in the name of stabilizing population growth. (h/t Chris Horner via wattsupwiththat.com)
God Will Not Be Mocked!!!, Will the Churches or Christians wake up in time?
Snopes?
Right, the same ‘Snopes’ that declared the first birth certificate b o foisted on us was ‘authentic’ and the same Snopes that said b o never voted to deny the protection of law to premature infants born alive as the result of failed attempt on their life by an abortionist.
That Snopes.
Is that the same Snopes on which you are re-lie-ing?
The burden is on you to prove it is NOT true.
Are you now asserting that cut and pasting without sourcing quotes and verifying facts is now un-acceptable practice.
The MSM has made it routine business for years.
yor bro ken, everybody and their mama knows that quote is satire. And you posted in bold. Embarrassing!
Suck it up and admit you messed up.
Here Ken, http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens188.htm. John Semmens is a conservative satirist, he invented that quote to poke fun at the Obama administrations’s plan to bill veteran’s private insurers to save VA medical money. He scrapped the plan after heat from veteran’s groups. Here is another conservative source explaining that it was a false quote http://www.meridianteaparty.com/obamas-response-to-veterans-private-insurance-plan-false/.
There are about a million legitimate things to criticize about Obama and his administration without resorting to passing off satire as reality.
Ken the Birther –
I’m just saying, as are multiple people, that it is very easy to check your facts these days. Believing everything you see in your email box is pretty foolish – a little research would be good for you.
Leslie @ 11:57:
I just learned today that Romney had a caveat in his refusal to sign the pledge; namely that he would appoint strict constructionists and would overturn the Mexico City policy. Of course that doesn’t these picks will be pro-lifers.
I agree that some of the Repub presidents SCOTUS picks have been disappointing. But when compared to the picks likely to occur in a second Obama term…well, there is no comparison. Everyone knows Obama would pick some more leftist radicals.