MOUNT VERNON, Ohio (OfficialWire) — A day after Mitt Romney downplayed his plans to fight abortion, social conservatives on Wednesday offered the Republican presidential nominee a not-so-subtle reminder of his pledge to do “everything in my power to cultivate, promote, and support a culture of life in America.”
The head of the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List distributed an article Romney penned last summer vowing to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood, while backing legislation that would “protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.” In the June 2011 article, Romney also expressed support for the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
“We have full confidence that as president, Gov. Romney will stand by the pro-life commitments,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.
In an interview Tuesday with The Des Moines Register, Romney said he would not pursue any abortion-related legislation if elected.
“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” he told the Iowa newspaper, an apparent shift from his previous position.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Steve Peoples.
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I’m getting a little tired of the ‘right to life’ crowd forgetting about ‘seperation of church and state’. This issue is between the personal parties and their God. Having said that, I am dead set against late term abortions. I consider that to be murder. Everyone has their opinion of when life begins. The trick is to not do anything you’ll regret later.
I’m getting a little tired of the ‘right to life’ crowd forgetting about ‘seperation of church and state’……..
Spelling error aside, you like so many ignorant drones, ignorant of American history and constitutional law, spew out this ACLU mantra as if it were codified in our Constitution, which even a ignorant drone should know isn’t the case nor has it ever been. While it’s become part of the case law fabric it’s still not codified in our Constitution.
America was a church relocation project for the Puritans who had fled England to get away from persecution including imprisonment, torture and death by the crown (the state) for their refusal to comply with the crown’s edict that there be only one church, the Church of England. Thus the First Amendment to the Constitution (no accident that it was the First) specifically addressed the question of whether the state could or should in any way interfere with the church’s business (Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof). The First Amendment purposely did not address the influence of religion on the state thereby leaving that option open to the people which obviously includes the pro-life crowd.
Supreme court Justice Hugo Black, himself a Catholic hater, a southern new deal democrat and former KKK member from Alabama in a Supreme Court opinion circa 1947 lifted from context a line in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury CN Baptist Association (1801) in which he made clear that they, the Baptists, need not worry about the state interfering with the church because as Jefferson put it: There should be a wall of separation between the state and the church in the context of the state staying out of the church’s business, not the other way round. In the letter Jefferson made it quite clear that there should be a separation of the state from the church but not the church from the state.
As confirmation of that latter point, Jefferson attended Sunday morning church services during his term in office with said services being held in the chambers of the House of Representatives which was believed at the time to be the largest church congregation in the nation. There was hardly any concern on Jefferson’s part about separation of church and state in the context of the church’s involvement in government. You latter day ignorant drones just keep on droning that stupid and baseless notion of “separation of church and state” as if the government is to be entirely secular which will eventually lead to anarchy for want of moral restraint, government’s primary God ordained purpose for existence.