Mitt Romney Former Gov. of Massachusetts (R) Tier 4 - Personhood Never Mitt Romney gives pro-family speeches to conservatives and has an actual record of being aggressively pro-abortion both before and especially after his claimed "pro-life" conversion.

• As a "Pro-life" Republican Candidate: by his undeniable documented record, Mitt Romney:
  - authorized tax-funded surgical elective abortion two years after he claimed a pro-life conversion
  - advocated grisly research on embryos after he claimed a pro-life conversion
  - nominated a pro-abortion Democrat judge after Romney claimed a pro-life conversion
  - gave Planned Parenthood a permanent seat on a state board after he claimed a pro-life conversion
  - bragged that he would continue to defend abortion "rights" after he claimed a pro-life conversion
  - pro-choice in '94; pro-life in '01; choice '02; pro-life '04; choice '05; life in '06; funded abortion in '06
  Though he enjoys support from some of America's largest ministries, Mitt Romney's recent and aggressive pro-abortion record shocks the conscience:
• Authorized Tax-Funded Abortion: On April 12, 2006 Romney signed1 Massachusetts' government health care plan2 that pays for even what are called "elective" abortions, procedures that kill unborn children even without the typical though invalid medical excuses common in tax-funded abortion laws.
• Promoted Even "Pro-Choice" Government Health Care: Romney's government-run health care plan3 predated Barack Obama's effort and according to the government of Massachusetts, "All Commonwealth Care health plans include… abortion."4
• Change of Heart? Preparing to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2005, Mitt Romney claimed a 2004 pro-life conversion5 6 which was two years before he authorized elective, surgical, tax-funded abortions.
• Tax-Payers Forced to Fund Abortion: Unlike the countless liberals and moderates who are "pro-choice" but oppose tax-funded abortion, "RomneyCare" goes beyond being merely "pro-choice" and is radically pro-abortion by paying abortionists with tax dollars.7 8

• Co-pays of $0 to $100: Under Romney's Commonwealth Care, a mother insured by Plan Type 2 renders a $50 co-payment to kill her child. Plan types 3 and 4 require co-pays of up to $100.9 Currently, the total financial cost to kill a child whose mother is covered by Plan Type 110 is paid by Romney's government-regulated health care plan.
• That's My Story and I'm Stickin' To It: In his campaign's Mitt Had No Choice press release, Romney calls it a "myth" that the Commonwealth Care program even includes abortion as a benefit. On the highest profile issue hurting his chances for a 2008 presidential nomination, he claimed this: "MYTH: Under Governor Romney's Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform Plan, abortion services are offered as part of the Commonwealth Care benefit services package."11 12 Just as the Democrats expect the New York Times to never fact check their claims, so too, Romney's campaign wrote this release for the conservative talk show hosts and authors whom they know are gullible, poor researchers, and who have a soft-spot for pro-abortion Republicans (e.g. "Romney governed as a pro-lifer." –Ann Coulter13). Even though Mitt calls it a myth that his plan pays for abortion, his press release goes on to explain why it is definitely not his fault that it does. "I didn't do it, and if I did it wasn't my fault." 
• If I Did It, Here's How It Happened: Can Mitt Romney be connected to the authority that offers tax-funded abortion? Other than that he created and staffed it that is? If I Did It: Romney claims, "The Commonwealth Care benefit services package was developed by the Connector Authority – an independent authority separate from the Governor's Office. … Their decisions were made separate of the Romney administration."14 The truth is that the "Connector" was created by Romney's authority with the Act of 2006 that he signed,15 it was placed under Romney's executive branch administration,16 17 and was run by a ten-member board with three members appointed by Romney himself and three appointed by Romney's attorney general who was also part of the executive branch and Romney administration."18
• It's Not My Fault: The health care plan Romney signed into law states, "Any action of the connector may take effect immediately and need not be published or posted."19 Romney's denial of responsibility for tax-funded abortion is like a governor appointing a known racist and giving him authority to lynch and then denying any responsibility.
• Expands "Medically Necessary" to ALL Abortions: Romney today falsely claims that 1981 and 1997 Massachusetts supreme court rulings20 referencing so-called "medically necessary"21 abortions forced him to provide tax-funded "elective" abortion into law. In the 1981 case the court opinion stated that if abortion for the life of the mother was funded, then the government must also pay for "medically necessary" abortions.22 The 1997 opinion stated that if the government paid for child birth care, it must also pay for "medically necessary" abortions, reasoning of course that if the government is going to pay to help children, it must be fair and pay to kill them also.23 Romney prioritizes socialized government "health care" over protecting kids, even when that "health care" pays to kill them. Not only is Romney's claim false that he had no choice, but adults, let alone leaders, are not "forced" in such ways. Romney should have vetoed, rather than praised and signed, any legislation that would pay abortionists to kill children. And for a conservative "pro-lifer," he outdid Massachusetts' own activist judges by interpreting "medically necessary" to mean all abortions. [For more information, see Mitt Funds Abortion below.]
• Promotes Chemical Abortifacients: Romney signed a 2005 bill, the year following his alleged pro-life conversion, that promotes chemical abortions with Plan B.24 25 26
• CLAIM: Mitt Romney falsely claims, "On every piece of legislation, I came down on the side of life."27 28 29
• Discrediting Pro-Family Movement: Romney's desire for power has further undermined the pro-life industry30 as many conservatives repeat his false claim, including Ann Coulter, that "Romney governed as a pro-lifer."31 32 33 Tony Perkins at the Family Research Counsel says Romney is "solidly conservative across the board"34 and a Focus Action Candidate Commentary video from Focus on the Family shockingly agrees with Romney that, "on the social issues we are so similar. [Romney and Focus]"35 36 Focus and FRC say this of a candidate who recently:37
  - funded abortion
  - opposed a Massachusetts Defense of Marriage constitutional amendment
  - said homosexuals should be allowed in the boy scouts
  - officially celebrated "Gay-Straight Youth Pride Day"
  - sat on the board of directors for a leading purveyor of pornography without opposing the corporation's exploitation of women
  - instituted homosexual marriage (see Coulter Hang-Ups video below), and
  - was ahead of Barack Obama promoting government health care38
• Revolving Door: Romney's revolving door position on killing children depends on whether he is seeking pro-life or pro-choice votes.39 40 41 ABCNews.com published the Romney Fairytale TV ad transcript:42

• 1994 Pro-Choice Run: Romney ran for Senator in Massachusetts as pro-choice in 1994,43 attended an abortion fundraiser,44 and his wife Ann gave $150 to Planned Parenthood.45 46

At a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Cohasset, Mass

• 2001 Not Pro-Choice: In 2001, eyeing the Utah governor's mansion, Romney wrote to the Salt Lake Tribune, “I do not wish to be labeled pro-choice”47 48 and on July 4 "one of his closest friends," Utah developer Kem Gardner, rationalized that Romney's previous, aggressive pro-choice stands were merely an example of "waffling." Romney had not ruled out a Massachusetts run and so kept open his options not denying that he was pro-choice, but just saying he did not want to be labeled so.
• 2002 Pro-Choice Again: Romney was pro-choice again in 2002 when running for governor of Massachusetts.49
• 2002 Promises to Support Tax-Funded Abortion: In 2002 on a Planned Parenthood questionnaire Romney indicated "Yes" he "support[s]… the substance of… Roe," "state funding of abortion," and "increase[d] access to emergency contraception [chemical abortifacients]." Two years after his "conversion," while giving lip-service to pro-lifers, he fulfilled his 2002 promise by giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood abortionists, who endorsed RomneyCare along with Hillary Clinton50 51 and Ted Kennedy.52
• 2002 Long-Term Plans for the Republican Party: In 2002 Romney wrote on a NARAL survey, "I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose," told their executives, "You need someone like me in Washington," personally courted the wrongly-named "Republican Majority for Choice," and issued a press release with their endorsement.53
• 2002 GOP (not Democratic) Convention Pledge: At the Massachusetts GOP convention in April 2002, Romney said, "...I respect and will fully protect a woman's right to choose. That right is a deeply personal one…"54

• Nov. 9, 2004 Conversion: Romney says regarding abortion that he simply changed his mind during a meeting with an embryonic stem-cell researcher. "It hit me... that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life," Romney says. "I have a number of principles, and the principles remain the same."55 Harvard University stem cell researcher Douglas Melton claims Romney "mischaracterized" their meeting. "We didn't discuss killing or anything related to it." Melton denies Romney's claim that they talked about researchers who "kill the embryos after 14 days." 56 57
• Personally Pro-Life Means Officially Pro-Choice: Hear Mitt Romney demonstrate the truth of this American Right To Life saying… 

• Microscopic Conversion: The Harvard researcher's claim that Romney mischaracterized his transformation experience is corroborated by Mitt's many subsequent aggressive pro-abortion actions and by the obvious problem that Romney was not persuaded by mutilated bodies from late-term abortions yet he has an epiphany over microscopic embryos he could not see. Of course, later, Romney even lobbied for tax-funded lethal embryonic research.58
• Contradicts His Own 2005 "Testimony": Romney announced his "pro-life" conversion in his editorial in the Boston Globe explaining why he vetoed a bill requiring the Morning After Pill59 to be made available to rape victims. He wanted to know whether Plan B "would simply prevent conception or whether it would also terminate a living embryo after conception. Once it became clear that the latter was the case, my decision was straightforward."60 Contradicting his own conversion testimony, not only does Romney not advocate a ban on embryonic research, he actually supports government funding for the lethal use of the tiniest children for research,61 62 demonstrating the falsity of both his conversion and his account of it. And yet many pro-family "leaders" have chosen to ignore the truth, and believe lies.
• 2005 Nomination of Pro-Choicer: As governor, Romney nominated to the Massachusetts district court, for life, an openly pro-abortion Democrat Matt Nestor.63
• 2005 Rejection and Promotion of Plan B: Romney reversed his own July veto against abortifacients by signing an October bill seeking a federal waiver to expand distribution of Plan B abortifacients, and increased funding for "abortion counseling."64
• 2005 Veto and Mandate of Plan B: After having vetoed a requirement that hospitals offer Plan B to rape victims, Romney reverses himself and issued an executive order on December 8, 2005, against the legal opinion of his own State Department of Public Health, instructing all Catholic hospitals and others to provide chemical abortifacient Plan B to rape victims.65 [Of course every hospital should refuse to comply with any order to kill children.] As a Boston editorial put it, "Flip, flop, flip… Romney has now executed an Olympic-caliber double flip-flop with a gold medal performance twist-and-a-half."66 67
• 2006 Seats Planned Parenthood: Romney gave a permanent seat on the health payment policy advisory board to the nation's leading abortionist, Planned Parenthood.68 69 70 While nothing could justify giving governmental authority to an anti-Semite or an abortionist, Romney did not even work for a pro-life seat on the same board.71 72 73 
• 2006 30 Pieces of Silver: As reported by Harper's Magazine, "In Iowa… Romney’s triumph at the Ames Straw Poll [cost] $650 per vote" and "Romney has also used his personal PAC… to contribute lavishly to several national pro-life groups…"74 So by October 2007, Romney's campaign announced National Right To Life's general counsel, "James Bopp is a key advisor to Mitt Romney."75 76. And the New York Times reports, "…before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination… Romney… contributed tens of thousands of dollars of his personal fortune to several conservative groups… contributions of $10,000 to $15,000 to… Massachusetts organizations associated with major national conservative groups: the anti-abortion Massachusetts Citizens for Life… to a nonprofit group affiliated with National Review… Romney gave $5,000 to… National Review… [as did] Evangelicals for Mitt… and to the Christian conservative Massachusetts Family Institute [which is] affiliated with the national Family Research Council and Focus on the Family… $35,000 to the Federalist Society… $25,000 to the Heritage Foundation… Citizens for Life and the Family Institute have turned supportive of Mr. Romney after criticizing him in the past… The Family Institute is part of a network for Christian conservative groups in Colorado Springs, etc.
• 2007 A to Z: Abortion is like zoning. Many state candidates refuse to stand up and be counted by saying that abortion is a federal matter, and many federal candidates do the reverse. Romney punted by saying that the government should "allow states to make their own choice" whether to permit child killing.77 78 Thus Romney not only funds abortion, he is also openly and admittedly pro-choice state by state. Romney thereby denies the God-given right to life of the unborn, and as president he would require the federal government to violate the U.S. Constitution and tolerate child killing, rejecting the 5th Amendment and the 14th which states in part: "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."79 Far more significantly, Romney tolerates violations of God's enduring command, Do not murder. States prosecute murder. They do not have the right to decriminalize murder. Finally, Romney and National RTL attorney James Bopp have redefined the very meaning of a "Human Life Amendment" to describe one that they might support as meaning, "leave the matter in state hands."80 81
• 2007 till Now – Some Kids Not Worth Loving or Protecting: Despite his alleged pro-life conversion, Romney still openly supports killing the child of a criminal.82 Like Romney, many liberals argue that we should protect the rapist and kill the child.83
• August 11, 2007: In the Ames Straw Poll debate in Iowa, after spending tens of millions of dollars of his own money in his zeal for power and willing to say anything to trick the rank-and-file caucus voters, Romney, in contradiction to his recent claim to support a state's "right" to promote abortion84, claimed that he supported a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution (in today's terms, a federal personhood bill),85 so listen to this 26 seconds:
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• Ten Days Later: In an August 21, 2007 interview to a different audience, Romney reversed himself explaining that he thinks if a state wants to kill unborn children, that's fine with him. Like Ron Paul,86 Mitt Romney is pro-choice state by state. Listen to this 30-second Olympic gold medal proof of a liar:
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• The Ann Coulter-Hang-Ups: What does CPAC stand for? What's Ann's mug shot number stand for? Who recanted? Whose team is the punter on? For answers and for more about Mitt watch this smash hit Ann Coulter YouTube video:

Mitt Funds Abortion: Romney line-item vetoed his "health care reform" eight times87 showing that he micromanaged Commonwealth Care. Romney vetoed an extension of "dental services"88 yet not only did he do nothing to stop the extension and expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, he actually authorized it. As George W. Bush assistant Mary Matalin stated on Deace in the Morning on Des Moines's WHO 1040 AM, “In Mitt Romney's health care plan that he is applauding you can get an abortion for $50.”89 90 "Implementation begins… immediately with the expansion of MassHealth eligibility" and within six months of his signature, while he was still in office, Commonwealth Care was providing abortion "benefits"91 by Romney's authority. To this day, his program forces citizens to pay abortionists to kill children. Meanwhile, Romney dismisses American RTL 2008 primary ads in early contest states telling ABC News "My record in being pro-life is very clear as the governor of Massachusetts" [Jake Tapper, That Anti-Romney Iowa TV ad] and the ARTL eagle-protecting-the-baby logo tops New York Times story of Romney's impending primary loss after spending "$35 million of his [own] money" reports "abortion opponents and Romney supporters exchanged words."] Why? Because as Deroy Murdock at National Review Online quoted Massachusetts Pro-Life Federation president Jerry Zandstra: "The law exists under Romney’s signature, and the end result is state-funded abortions…  In this key fight over taxpayer funded abortions, he caved."92 Of course, Barack Obama at least had the decency to lie to the public during the health care debate claiming that ObamaCare would not pay for abortion.93 94 Like Romney, rhetoric aside, Obama would not veto legislation because it pays for abortion.

We Are So Similar: Many ministry leaders whom Christians want to respect apparently have done no research and simply repeat the campaign rhetoric of the life-long pro-abortion Mitt Romney, that he had a conversion and that he governed as a pro-lifer. After a widely-reported effort to correct the record,95 still, pro-family leaders continued to endorse Romney and in this grainy YouTube copy of a copy, Focus on the Family Vice President Tom Minnery agrees that the two, Focus and Romney, are so similar:

By now perhaps it's mostly pride. And a craving for "a seat at the table" must move Christian leaders to actually defend the most egregious pro-abortion governmental policies, i.e., tax-funded child killing as implemented by a Republican long after the "pro-life" conversion they claim he had. Mitt's funding of abortion has made him the litmus test. Any "conservative" leader who now endorses Romney, who is clearly a pro-choice Clintonesque Republican, demonstrates a willingness to dishonor God, mislead Christians, and betray the innocent, all for some supposed political gain.

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