{"id":6280,"date":"2011-11-04T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/which-mitt-on-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T07:01:37","slug":"which-mitt-on-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/which-mitt-on-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Mitt on Women’s Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney has distinguished himself as the Republican candidate, who has firmly positioned himself on both sides of every issue.  Nowhere is this more apparent than on the issue of a women\u2019s right to have control over her own body.  But with Mitt, one thing is certain.  What Mitt says and what Mitt does are completely unrelated.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"4Romney2Face\"Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion rights advocates sitting in his office nine years ago, assuring the group that if elected Massachusetts governor, he would protect the state\u2019s abortion laws.<\/p>\n

Then, as the meeting drew to a close, the businessman offered an intriguing suggestion \u2014 that he would rise to national prominence in the Republican Party as a victor in a liberal state and could use his influence to soften the GOP\u2019s hard-line opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n

He would be a \u201cgood voice in the party\u201d for their cause, and his moderation on the issue would be \u201cwidely written about,\u201d he said, according to detailed notes taken by an officer of the group, NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need someone like me in Washington,\u201d several participants recalled Romney saying that day in September 2002, an apparent reference to his future ambitions\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lawrence O’Donnell reports and interviews Nancy Keenan of NARAL.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Keenan is right.  Mitt opposed women\u2019s rights then as much as he does now, as his behavior as Governor demonstrates.  If Mitt gets the nomination, he will flip back, but that is because there is nothing Romney won\u2019t say to get elected.  As President, his position would be the standard Republican approach to women\u2019s rights shown below.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mitt Romney has distinguished himself as the Republican candidate, who has firmly positioned himself on both sides of every issue.  Nowhere is this more apparent than on the issue of a women\u2019s right to have control over her own body.  But with Mitt, one thing is certain.  What Mitt says and what Mitt does are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}