Bush flip-flopped on abortion--and his administration lies about it


	Bush flip-flopped on abortion--and his administration lies about it

jklugman

3-5-2007 5:04 PM

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bush administration, mitt romney, republicans, deception, abortion

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<H3>Mitt, W., Abortion and Me</H3>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/03/mitt_w_abortion.php">In 1978, Bush, a 31-year-old oilman, was seeking the Republican nomination in Texas' 19th Congressional District, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/03/mitt_w_abortion.php"><I>Days before the June 3 primary runoff, Bush was interviewed by a reporter for the Lubbock </I>Avalanche-Journal<I>.</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/03/mitt_w_abortion.php">The Avalanche-Journal reported: "Bush said he opposes the pro-life amendment favored by Reese and favors leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question. 'That does not mean I'm for abortion,' he said."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/03/mitt_w_abortion.php">Yet sometime between his failed congressional bid of 1978 and his run for governor in 1994, he went from believing abortion was a decision best left to a woman to expressing full support for criminalizing abortion. He has never acknowledged this switch--whenever it happened. It was natural for Romney to seek political coverage for his own abortion flip-flop by citing Bush's change of heart. He just didn't figure that Bush and his aides would continue to be dishonest about such a significant matter.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDDB3755-1B61-47D8-B71E-85F5427A7977/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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