Romney Uses Choice Language To Further Muddle His Position On Women’s Health
Source: Think Progress
Throughout the past week, Mitt Romney has attempted to obfuscate his record on womens health issues. Last Tuesday, he said he isnt familiar with any anti-abortion legislation in his proposed agenda, despite being on the record as supporting at least three pieces of anti-abortion legislation a statement which the Romney campaign worked quickly to backtrack, saying that Romneys new abortion position is completely consistent with his record. In fact, Romneys record on abortion has been everywhere on the map.
And a Virginia mailer from the Romney campaign may serve to further confuse voters about where Romney stands on abortion issues, as it proclaims that a Romney presidency will protect health care choice.
As CNN reports, the message across the front of the mailer looks like something Planned Parenthood might send out to potential supporters. But according the Romney campaign, the choice in question is not about whether women should have autonomy over their own reproductive decisions. Instead, as the mailer explains, it is a reference to the choice that Americans have between President Obamas landmark health care reform law and Romneys proposed health care policies. Romney has pledged to repeal Obamacare on his first day in office, and he lays out the contrast between the two candidates on the back of the brochure: This is a time of choice for the American people. If were going to get rid of Obamacare, were going to have to replace President Obama. My mission is to make sure we do exactly that.
However, co-opting the choice language within the context of health issues does not serve to illustrate a clear contrast between the two presidential candidates. Instead, it relies on framing that is typically used by advocates for womens health, further confusing where exactly Romney stands on issues like womens access to abortion and contraception. Throughout his time as an elected official, Romney has shifted from a pro-choice lawmaker in Massachusetts to a stringently anti-choice member of the GOP party, whose platform endorses a total ban on abortions, depending on the political climate. But even if Romney is attempting to be vague about the details of his anti-choice credentials to convince some female voters that a Romney presidency wouldnt threaten their reproductive freedom, he has pledged to be as he clarified last week a pro-life president who will take pro-life measures.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/15/1016321/romney-choice-language/
The flip flop flip! Romney is in full lie and deny mode as he tells an Iowa newspaper that he isn't familiar with any anti-abortion legislation, then reverses himself and says that he is anti-abortion, then his campaign sends this mailer assuring voters that he will protect "choice" and the President Obama is anti-choice.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Vote!
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)should address it. "Mr. Romney is trying to fool the women in this country...I know they're too smart for that".
DemKittyNC
(743 posts)till this moron is out of a job this November. I never want to hear his name ever again.
truthisfreedom
(23,152 posts)DemKittyNC
(743 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,405 posts)Thanks for the thread, TomCADem.
bucolic_frolic
(43,259 posts)anything Boehner and Mitch can pass, Romney will sign
and issue stacks of Executive Orders
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and what if the Senate doesn't agree?
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)He was speaking against the "trickle down government of Obama"... Now that Supply side, trickle down economics is getting a bit of the derision that it deserves, they want to saddle that term on someone else.
Megahurtz
(7,046 posts)All that Republican-coined "Trickle Down" term did was inflame me even further. Reminds me of well-to-do Republicans pissing down on those less fortunate than themselves. I hope many others were just as inflamed over that comment.