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‘Real News:’ Obama Campaign Attempts to Put Focus on Romney’s Abortion Stance

Oct. 10, 2012 9:41pm Christopher Santarelli

A week following President Obama’s disastrous performance in the domestic policy debate, the Obama campaign tried to pivot the national discussion to the notoriously polarizing wedge issue of abortion Wednesday. During a morning conference call with reporters, Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter brought on Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to discuss Romney’s stance on abortion which they characterized as cynical and dishonest. The New York Times reports:

“Governor Romney has been dishonest about his plans on issue after issue. Romney’s dishonesty on abortion is just one example,” Ms. Cutter said, noting that a spokeswoman for Mr. Romney quickly reiterated his anti-abortion credentials.

“We’re saying he’s trying to cover up his beliefs,” Ms. Cutter said. “They know that his anti-choice position, his anti-Roe v. Wade position, is bad for his campaign.”

Romney confused some when he told the Des Moines Register Tuesday that “there’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.”

The Romney campaign has since clarified that “Romney would of course support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.”

On ‘Real News’ Wednesday the panel discussed whether Romney’s position on abortion needs clarification and if the renewed focus on the issue by the Obama campaign is a sign of desperation:

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PlanetReality
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:56am
WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!!!!!! dont care about BIRTH CONTROL or ABORTION right now!!! FEED MY FAMILY and being able to afford to get to work, drop kids off and KEEPING MY JOB!!! this is as bad as shoving a BOTCHED healthcare bill down our throats instead of worrrying about americans and their jobs!!!!

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PlanetReality
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:44am
FIGURES!!!! WHEN U CANT RUN ON your own failing policies lets bring something up that is already legal and the last legislator on mind!!!
16 trillion debt, high unemployment, high gas prices ,the MIDDLEAST, fast and furious, no job growth wouldnt it be great to take a poll ask how many women regret walking in those doors especially as a young adult???? VOTE HIM OUT!!!

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TRILO
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:02pm
Romney flips and flops on alot of issues which is why I have little respect for him. TOTUS on the other hand is an abject liar on everything that comes from his mouth, except when he said he wants to fundamentally change America. He spoke the truth then. From that time forward you can see why he has done what he has. Can’t say he did not warn us. The sheeple just did not listen.

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- damon_k
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:38am
  Whatever you may think of Romney (when you know the facts, he hasn’t flip-flopped) he is far superior to Obama and would take this country in the right direction. Read more commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- PlanetReality
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:50am
  Who flip flops try obama!!!!
  
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KangarooJack
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:57pm
I heard this 1st on the radio coming home from work…did I SEE what I saw? Did I HEAR what I heard in the 1st Presidential Debate??? AT WHAT POINT DID ABORTION EVEN COME UP????????????????????????????????

Frankly, I could care less who “wins” a debate. What I SEE/HEAR/KNOW is that Obama can’t hold his own FACE TO FACE when his distortions are put upon him flat on a plate.

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mtsnj
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:52pm
Ooooo ms cutter your really onto something now… Better start looking for your next career

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coyote1hell
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:49pm
Planned Abortion-Hooded liberals…want to abort you… really late term, if you don’t agree with Buh’Rack and his kill the baby mentality…. that’s all..

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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:36pm
The hilarious thing is that the left still thinks Romney is pro-life. The reality is that Romney is reverting to his historical position, which is pro-choice. Democrats tried to paint Romney as some extreme right-winger – that was a big mistake

“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970, as a US senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. And I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice.”
-Mitt Romney (October 25, 1994)

I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose, and I am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.”
-Mitt Romney (2002)

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- Mutiny
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:47pm
  http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2012/10/10/romney-abortion-conservatives/1624061/
  
  Mitt Romney “There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” October 10. 2012
  
  What part of being pro life shouldn’t be part of his agenda. Romney is spineless. Take a stand and people will back you Mitt. This is what we have warned you people about. Romney if he wins, will move left. He is already doing it.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:47pm
  Source: Meet the Press: 2007 “Meet the Candidates” series , Dec 16, 2007
  
  Interviewer
  Q: Why such a dramatic and profound change after pledging never to waiver on a woman’s right to choose?
  
  Romney
  A: I was always personally opposed to abortion, as I think almost everyone in this nation is. And the question for me was, what is the role of government? And it was quite theoretical and philosophical to consider what the role of government should be in this regard, and I felt that the Supreme Court had spoken and that government shouldn’t be involved and let people make their own decision. That all made a lot of sense to me. Then I became governor and the theoretical became reality. A bill came to my desk which related to the preservation of life. I recognized that I simply could not be part of an effort that would cause the destruction of human lift. And I didn’t hide from that change of heart. I recognize it’s a change. Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.
  
  http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Mitt_Romney_Abortion.htm
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:47pm
  Yeah, you are a true DEMOCRAT crapbag. Lets hear that Ron Paul bull . Or your Gary Johnson blow jarbs. Fraud.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:10pm
  @Mutiny
  
  Did you even read the article in the link you posted? Or just drink the kool-aid?
  
  Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the Associated Press on Tuesday that Romney is “proudly pro-life and will be a pro-life president.” She also said Romney would “support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.”
  
  He did say he would use an executive order to reinstate a ban on using U.S. dollars to pay for abortions overseas.
  
  The Obama campaign noted that Romney has said he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would “hopefully” overturn Roe v. Wade.
  
  Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which opposes abortion rights, told USA TODAY that the organization is “confident” Romney will keep promises made to conservatives on this issue.
  
  “We have full confidence that as president, Gov. Romney will stand by the pro-life commitments he laid out in National Review in June 2011,” Dannenfelser said in a statement. She said these promises include “his pledge to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform and promote abortion, as well as advocate for a bill to promote unborn children capable of feeling pain.”
  
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- Mutiny
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:09am
  @rational
  
  Yeah I read a “pro life” president will not push the pro life issue. There is legislation ready to become part of a “pro life” president’s agenda. Maybe like that bill Sanctity of Life Act. He could support it and actually stand for something. I guess pandering to the left is his style.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:55am
  Are you dyslexic or have some kind of mental illness? Cause I don’t want to make fun of you if you just can’t help it.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 6:45am
  @Rational
  you are so biased that you are ignoring plain facts and making up excuses. You lost the argument which is why you reverted to name calling
  
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- PlanetReality
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 7:48am
  has your mother ever had an abortion???? a woman right is to choose and a mature woman would probably choose NO!!!! the problem is the majority of women walk thru those doors as young adults who have to live with that regret the rest of there live once they become mature women and mothers!!!
  Alot more to it then the right to choose everyone has the right to choose how many choose WRONG???
  
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