Flip-Flop on Abortion

Many have said that they can not support Mitt Romney because he flip-flopped on abortion.  He once states that he is pro-choice and now he is pro-life just to win the nomination and you can not trust what he will do as President.

Many pro-life people are hoping that one day, there will be a conservative enough supreme court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the decision that eventually led to the overturn of many anti-abortion laws.  Therefore, only a sold pro-life candidate will do.

Mitt Romney declared that he was pro-choice when running for the Senate against Ted Kennedy.  But guess what happened?  There were adds run in Massachusetts by the Kennedy campaign stating that even though Romney said he was pro-choice, as an LDS Stake President he pressured a woman to put her child up for adaption instead of getting an abortion.  (Apparently this woman either left the church on her own, or was excommunicated by her bishop after the abortion.)  The truth is that even though Mitt declared that he was pro-choice, he got burned because he followed the handbook in his duty as a stake president and advised against the abortion.  Therefore, being pro-choice did not help Romney is his campaign for Senate.  That was a hard lesson to learn.

He was still in the pro-choice camp when he ran for governor in 2002.  But he changed.  He consistently fought to keep aborted fetuses out of the line for stem cell research...a very pro-life stance.  And declared himself as part of the pro-life movement once people began the push to use aborted fetuses for this research.  Therefore, when the issue came up as Massachusetts governor, his actions show that he had left the pro-choice camp behind.

Now, when it comes to flip-flopping, sometimes we want people to flip-flop.  Wouldn't be great if all pro-choice people flip-flopped to became pro-life?  Yes, we do want pro-choice people to flip-flop.  It would be a shame to prohibit former pro-choice people from holding elective office.  But some think that this is a reason not to support Romney.  The question is whether or not a person changes the stance depending on who the audience is.  If you find that Governor Romney has done this, please send to me a link to the speech where he has declared his pro-choice intent after becoming the Governor of Massachusetts, and I will post it on this blog.