Richard Tafoya
May 13th, 2007, 10:36 PM
AP:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6624308,00.html
Conservative activists criticized Mitt Romney over his abortion record Thursday as the Republican presidential contender received an award from an anti-abortion group that also used to complain about his support for abortion rights.
A coalition including the leaders of the Pro-Life Federation, the Michigan Conservative Union and Massachusetts Resistance was especially critical of the revelation that Romney's wife, Ann, had donated $150 to Planned Parenthood during her husband's 1994 U.S. Senate campaign.
The group also complained because a universal health care bill Romney signed into law while Massachusetts governor includes a seat for Planned Parenthood - which includes abortion among its family planning services - on a payment policy board.
``His commitment to the pro-life cause has been called into question because of his frequently changing position on the issue of abortion and his signing into law a bill that provides taxpayer-funded abortion in Massachusetts,'' the group said in a statement.
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On Wednesday, when word of Ann Romney's 1994 Planned Parenthood donation surfaced, her husband said her donation should not have been considered unusual, given his own support for abortion rights at the time.
Romney is not alone among the Republican presidential field in facing questions about his abortion record.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the only avowed abortion rights supporter in the race, has been scrutinized during the past week since a debate in Simi Valley, Calif., where he stumbled over a question about repealing Roe v. Wade.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6624308,00.html
Conservative activists criticized Mitt Romney over his abortion record Thursday as the Republican presidential contender received an award from an anti-abortion group that also used to complain about his support for abortion rights.
A coalition including the leaders of the Pro-Life Federation, the Michigan Conservative Union and Massachusetts Resistance was especially critical of the revelation that Romney's wife, Ann, had donated $150 to Planned Parenthood during her husband's 1994 U.S. Senate campaign.
The group also complained because a universal health care bill Romney signed into law while Massachusetts governor includes a seat for Planned Parenthood - which includes abortion among its family planning services - on a payment policy board.
``His commitment to the pro-life cause has been called into question because of his frequently changing position on the issue of abortion and his signing into law a bill that provides taxpayer-funded abortion in Massachusetts,'' the group said in a statement.
...
On Wednesday, when word of Ann Romney's 1994 Planned Parenthood donation surfaced, her husband said her donation should not have been considered unusual, given his own support for abortion rights at the time.
Romney is not alone among the Republican presidential field in facing questions about his abortion record.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the only avowed abortion rights supporter in the race, has been scrutinized during the past week since a debate in Simi Valley, Calif., where he stumbled over a question about repealing Roe v. Wade.