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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" dir=ltr>Donovan,<BR><BR>I think the answer is a simple one if the question is properly asked: 'Do you believe that the government has the right to force you to carry a pregnancy to term against your will?'<BR><BR>1) Yes<BR>2) No<BR>3) Not Applicable<BR><BR>-Scott<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><SPAN>I agree with what you say here with the exception of abortion. This is an instance where I do see someone that honestly believes babies are being killed wanting a legal end to it. I don't disagree that killing babies is wrong, or horrific, I just disagree that a fertilized egg is a baby. So to me, ending the life an egg and sperm is not murder, only the slaughter of a being with a formed, functioning human brain can be murder in my opinion.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><SPAN>If <SPAN id=yiv1788997230ecxmisspell-0><SPAN>infanticide</SPAN></SPAN> was legal in this country, I would wish the law to be changed and strictly enforced to keep innocent babies and infants alive. And since many people do see abortion as infanticide, I agree with them to that end even if it imposed a restriction on the freedoms of others because murder is the greatest restriction of liberty there is. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>On other issues, of freedom, such as religion, marriage, how to live your life, you are <SPAN id=yiv1788997230ecxmisspell-1><SPAN>absolutely</SPAN></SPAN> right about their demands to incorporate their religion on all people with the force of law, they are wrong, and it is anti-<SPAN id=yiv1788997230ecxmisspell-2><SPAN>American</SPAN></SPAN>, and anti-Christian. America is about being free. Christianity is about being free to choose and accept Christ, not about forcing <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Judeo</SPAN>-Christian laws on people. This often just drives people away from liking the United States and Christianity. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" dir=ltr>The religious right have controlling personalities. They not only want to preach about how people 'should live their personal lives according to God's wisdom', but they also want to force you to live that way by physically restricting your access to birth control, to emergency contraception, to abortion. I haven't checked Doug Wilson's blog lately, but I'm guessing he's thrilled that such 'men' like Paul Ryan and Todd Akin are fighting tooth and nail to enshrine God's law into the law of the land.<BR><BR>-Scott<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks, Nick. Cogent, as usual....too bad the religious right can put their hands over their eyes and ignore it....</FONT></DIV>
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<H2 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: #1d1d1d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><A title="How the Body Reacts to Sexual Assault " href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/169474/how-body-reacts-sexual-assault" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: black">How the Body Reacts to Sexual Assault</SPAN></A></SPAN></H2>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white" class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxMsoNormal><B><I><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: #526a83; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A href="http://www.thenation.com/authors/dana-goldstein" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">Dana <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Goldstein</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN></I></B><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxtimestamp><B><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif; COLOR: rgb(178,178,178); FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><I>on August 20, 2012 </I>The Nation</SPAN></B></SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'serif'; COLOR: #526a83; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></I></B></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Embattled US Senate candidate Todd Akin claimed yesterday that “legitimate rape” somehow turns off the female body’s reproductive capabilities. As I<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://www.danagoldstein.net/dana_goldstein/2012/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-rape-related-pregnancy.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">demonstrate below</SPAN></A>, that is absurd. But it is important to note that<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Akin’s ideology is part of a broader set of misconceptions about how the body reacts to sexual assault.</I></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">There’s<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/2012/aug/20/legitimate-rape-medieval-medical-concept" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">nothing new</SPAN></A><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN>about the idea that vaginal lubrication, orgasm and pregnancy can occur only after a wanted sexual encounter. None of this is true. A<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/23150432/Sexual-Arousal-and-Orgasm-in-Subjects-Who-Experience-Forced-Stimulation" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">2004 paper</SPAN></A><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN>from the<SPAN
class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine</I>addresses some of these misconceptions. The authors, Roy Levin and Willy van <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Berlo</SPAN>, considered reports from doctors, nurses and therapists who work with rape survivors. Many of the clinicians had experienced distraught victims’ asking why they felt lubrication or even orgasm during rape.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">One British nurse-therapist reported the following:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">“Approximately 1 in 20 women who come to the clinic for treatment because of sexual abuse report that they have had an orgasm from previous unsolicited sexual arousal. It is not detailed in the [professional] literature because the victims usually do not want to tell/talk about it because they feel guilty, as people will think that if it happened they must have enjoyed it. The victims often say, ‘My body let me down.’ Some, however, cannot summon the courage to say even that.”</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Heartbreaking. Levin and van <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Berlo</SPAN> found that victims report evidence of physical arousal in as many as 21 percent of rape cases, even when they also report violence and high levels of fear and mental distress. Why? The researchers note that many rapes are <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>comitted</SPAN> by acquaintances or romantic partners of the victims; initial familiarity or even attraction might be supplanted by terror as an encounter becomes coercive. This is relevant, I think, to the<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/12/the_perils_of_charging_rape.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">charges against Julian <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Assange</SPAN></SPAN></A>, who is accused of sexual
assault for refusing to wear a condom with female partners who had earlier consented to sex. If that <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>occured</SPAN>, it is still rape: physical force was used to violate the initial, consensual terms of the encounter.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Then there is the simple fact, obvious to most women, that the vagina can become lubricated during sex as a defense mechanism against tearing and pain, regardless of one’s level of enthusiasm or emotional buy-in.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">And it <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>isn</SPAN>’t just women who can experience these confusing sensations. In men, Levin and van <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>Berlo</SPAN> actually found some links between “anxiety-inducing threats” and increased blood flood flow to the penis.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">All of this is really hard to write and talk about it, because it exists in the murky area between what we desire and what we fear.</SPAN></I><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">Yes, force can provoke arousal, but that <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>doesn</SPAN>’t condone the<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>non-consensual</I>use of force. The authors conclude:</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">“A <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>perpertrator</SPAN>’s <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>defence</SPAN> against the alleged assault built solely on the evidence that genital arousal or orgasm in the victim proves consent has no intrinsic validity and should be disregarded.”</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">One of the many problems with Romney/Ryan-like rape exceptions to broad abortion bans is that they encourage anti-<SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>choicers</SPAN> to draw a thousand<SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/19/712251/how-todd-akin-and-paul-ryan-partnered-to-redefine-rape/?mobile=nc" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: #496a8b">false distinctions</SPAN></A><SPAN class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxapple-converted-space> </SPAN>between worthy and less worthy rape victims, which is what Akin was really attempting to do. What he cares about is saving as many fetuses as possible, regardless of what calamity befell the women forced to bear them. For example, if you were raped by an ex-husband or ex-boyfriend, is your fetus as unwanted as that of a
woman raped by a stranger? If you were raped by a man with whom you were drinking, do you deserve that free pass abortion? Non-consensual sex is non-consensual sex. It exerts unwanted control over a woman’s body—as does forced pregnancy.</SPAN></DIV><BR>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxgmail_quote>On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:53 PM, lfalen <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1788997230ecxyiv1572640160ecxgmail_quote>Nick<BR>Most social issues are not hot button items for me. I am more interested in economic issues. In general though, I favor more freedom for the individual and less interference by the government. I am nether strongly pro-choice or pro-life, but tend to be closer to the pro-life position. Abortion should not be used as a form of birth control. In extremely rare <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>surrmonstances</SPAN> such as the life of the mother, her life should dominate. I think that some of the positions of some democrats such as partial term abortions and allowing a baby that survived <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>aan</SPAN> attempted abortion is much more extreme. Fortunately that is a minority opinion even for democrats.<BR><BR>I am not aware of the legislation you mentioned, but I doubt that there is any such
thing as justifiable rape.<BR>Roger<BR>-----Original message-----<BR>From: Nicholas <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>Gier</SPAN> <A href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com">ngier006@gmail.com</A><BR>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:26:45 -0700<BR>To: lfalen <A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</A><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates<BR><BR>> Hi Roger,<BR>><BR>> Where do you stand on the extreme, no exceptions GOP plank on abortion? As<BR>> a local GOP leader you should tell us what you believe.<BR>><BR>> And do you support Ryan after he teamed up with Akin in proposing a bill<BR>> with "justifiable rape" in it, which is what Akin said he meant when he<BR>> said "legitimate rape." Fortunately the language was rejected. Ryan and<BR>> Akin are two peas in a
pod with regard to social issues.<BR>><BR>> Inquiring mind wish to know.<BR>><BR>> Nick<BR>><BR>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM, lfalen <<A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</A>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> > The Republicans want him to drop out. His opponent wants him to stay in.<BR>> > Apparently both sides think he will be easy to beat. The rumor has it that<BR>> > <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>Mccaskill's</SPAN> backers funneled a lot of money into his campaign in the<BR>> > primary.<BR>> > Roger<BR>> > -----Original message-----<BR>> > From: Art Deco <A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A><BR>> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:11:15 -0700<BR>> > To: <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"
rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> > Subject: [Vision2020] The GOP War On Women Accelerates<BR>> ><BR>> > > V<BR>> > > [image: The New York Times] <<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/</A>><BR>> > ><BR>> > > <<BR>> > <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=wwwnytimes.com/printer-friendly&pos=Position1&sn2=336c557e/4f3dd5d2&sn1=a36510e4/68ad5fe5&camp=FSL2012_ArticleTools_120x60_1787508c_nyt5&ad=RubySparks_120x60_June25_NoText&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/rubysparks" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&<SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>opzn</SPAN>&page=wwwnytimes.com/printer-friendly&<SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>pos</SPAN>=Position1&<SPAN
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target=_blank>http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jennifer_steinhauer/index.html</A><BR>> > ><BR>> > ><BR>> > > WASHINGTON — As an orator, Representative Todd<BR>> > > Akin<ttp://<BR>> > <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/todd_akin/index.html?inline=nyt-per" rel=nofollow target=_blank>topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/todd_akin/index.html?inline=nyt-per</A><BR>> > >of<BR>> > > Missouri may stand out for his clumsiness. But as a legislator, Mr.<BR>> > > Akin<BR>> > > has a record on abortion that is largely indistinguishable from those of<BR>> > > most of his Republican House colleagues, who have viewed restricting<BR>> > > abortion rights as one of their top priorities.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > That agenda — largely eclipsed for two years by a protracted
fiscal<BR>> > crisis<BR>> > > and the fight over how to manage the federal deficit — has wedged its<BR>> > way,<BR>> > > for now at least, to the center of the 2012 campaign. It is focusing<BR>> > > attention on an issue that helped earn Mitt<BR>> > > Romney<<BR>> > <A href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney?inline=nyt-per" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates/mitt-romney?inline=nyt-per</A><BR>> > >,<BR>> > > the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a reputation as a<BR>> > > flip-flopper, threatening the Republican quest for control of the Senate,<BR>> > > and leaving Representative Paul D.<BR>> > > Ryan<<BR>> > <A href="http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/candidates/paul-ryan?inline=nyt-per" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/candidates/paul-ryan?inline=nyt-per</A>>of<BR>> > > Wisconsin, Mr. Romney’s vice-presidential pick, in the uncomfortable<BR>> > > position of distinguishing himself from Mr. Akin, with whom he has often<BR>> > > concurred.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > It is an agenda that has enjoyed the support of House leaders, including<BR>> > > Speaker John A. <SPAN id=misspell-33 class=mark>Boehner</SPAN> and Representative Eric Cantor, the majority<BR>> > > leader, who has called anti-abortion measures “obviously very important<BR>> > in<BR>> > > terms of the priorities we set out initially in our pledge to America.”<BR>> > It<BR>> > > became inextricably linked to the near-shutdown of the federal government<BR>> > > last year when an agreement to keep the government open was reached only<BR>> > > after it was
linked to a measure restricting abortion in the District of<BR>> > > Columbia.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Even as Congressional Republicans, including Mr. <SPAN id=misspell-34 class=mark>Boehner</SPAN>, denounced Mr.<BR>> > > Akin’s remark that victims of “legitimate rape” were able to somehow<BR>> > > prevent pregnancy, an agenda to roll back abortion is one that House<BR>> > > Republicans have largely moved in step with.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > In an anti-abortion measure once sponsored by Mr. Akin, Mr. Ryan and<BR>> > scores<BR>> > > of other Republican lawmakers, an exemption was made for victims of<BR>> > > “forcible” rape, though that word was later removed.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > *On Tuesday, Republicans approved platform language for next week’s<BR>> > > nominating convention that calls for a constitutional amendment
outlawing<BR>> > > abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. That<BR>> > is a<BR>> > > view more restrictive than Mr. Romney’s, who has said that he supports<BR>> > > exceptions to allow abortions in cases of rape. *<BR>> > ><BR>> > > * *Mr. Ryan’s more conservative views, which have been reflected in votes<BR>> > > that would restrict family planning financing overseas, cut off all<BR>> > federal<BR>> > > funds to Planned Parenthood and repeal President Obama’s health care<BR>> > > law<<BR>> > <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier</A><BR>> > >,<BR>> > > have come into sharp relief as Mr. Akin struggles for his political life.<BR>> > > Mr. Akin and Mr. Ryan each have voted in this Congress for 10<BR>> > > abortion-restricting measures as well as those that limited other family<BR>> > > planning services.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Both Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney have earned praise for their positions from<BR>> > > the National Right to Life group and other anti-abortion organizations.<BR>> > > “The right-to-life Romney/Ryan ticket is now complete,” wrote Barbara<BR>> > Lyons<BR>> > > and Sue <SPAN id=misspell-35 class=mark>Armacost</SPAN>, executive director and legislative director for<BR>> > Wisconsin<BR>> >
> Right to Life, on the organization’s Web site.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > It is a legislative theme Democrats plan to highlight, even as House<BR>> > > Republicans try to keep the focus on economic issues.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > “All you need to know is that the House Republicans were willing to shut<BR>> > > down the government rather than fund Planned Parenthood,” said<BR>> > > Representative Nancy <SPAN id=misspell-36 class=mark>Pelosi</SPAN>, the House Democratic leader, in an e-mail on<BR>> > > Tuesday. “This is in keeping with their efforts — whether it’s<BR>> > Congressman<BR>> > > Akin or Chairman Ryan or others — to deny investments in critical women’s<BR>> > > health services, weaken the definition of rape, and take away access to<BR>> > > preventive care like cervical and breast cancer screenings.”<BR>> > ><BR>> >
> The House Republican agenda has troubled the half-dozen or so Republican<BR>> > > House members whose views differ from those of their colleagues.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > “I have time and again spoken out against this to leadership,” said<BR>> > > Representative Robert <SPAN id=misspell-37 class=mark>Dold</SPAN> of Illinois, who is in a tough re-election<BR>> > > battle. “I’<SPAN id=misspell-38 class=mark>ve</SPAN> tried to talk to them about the issues that we ought to be<BR>> > > moving forward on, like out-of-control spending.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Mr. <SPAN id=misspell-39 class=mark>Dold</SPAN> has voted in favor of half of the abortion restriction measures<BR>> > in<BR>> > > this Congress, far fewer than most of his colleagues. “There is no<BR>> > question<BR>> > > that there are times when I may disagree with a vote that’s brought
to<BR>> > the<BR>> > > floor,” he said in an interview, “and the majority of my Republican<BR>> > > colleagues, but that is just part of what we deal with every day.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > There have long been lawmakers, like Mr. Akin, whose main legislative<BR>> > > agenda centers on the abortion issue. They got a boost after the 2010<BR>> > > election when a large group of conservative members joined them.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Mr. Romney’s views align with that of the Mormon Church, which opposes<BR>> > > abortion except in cases of rape and incest or when the life of the woman<BR>> > > is in danger. He has said he is personally opposed to abortion; as a<BR>> > Mormon<BR>> > > bishop in the 1980s he attempted to talk a congregant out of terminating<BR>> > a<BR>> > > pregnancy after doctors advised her to do so because of a
potentially<BR>> > > lethal blood clot.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > But abortion has proved to be a politically volatile topic for Mr.<BR>> > Romney,<BR>> > > whose evolving views have disappointed liberals and stirred distrust<BR>> > among<BR>> > > conservatives.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > In 1994, when he challenged Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Mr. Romney said he<BR>> > > would “not force our beliefs on others on that matter.” In 2002, as a<BR>> > > candidate for governor, he claimed to support “the substance” of Roe v.<BR>> > > Wade. By 2005, though, when he was beginning to consider a presidential<BR>> > > run, he had reversed course and described himself as a “pro-life governor<BR>> > > in a pro-choice state.” Now, as a presidential candidate, he refers to<BR>> > > himself as solidly “pro-life.”<BR>> > ><BR>> >
> Aides to Mr. Romney declined to say on Tuesday whether he would call on<BR>> > the<BR>> > > convention delegates to reconsider their position on abortion.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > <SPAN id=misspell-40 class=mark>Reince</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-41 class=mark>Priebus</SPAN>, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried<BR>> > to<BR>> > > deflect questions on behalf of Mr. Romney, saying on Fox News that “this<BR>> > is<BR>> > > the platform of the Republican<BR>> > > Party<<BR>> > <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org</A><BR>> > >;<BR>> > > it is not the platform of Mitt Romney.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > The idea of
outlawing any exceptions for abortion is not new in American<BR>> > > political discourse or in legislation, nor are proposals to narrow the<BR>> > > definition of rape to distinguish between what some call “forcible rape”<BR>> > > and cases involving statutory rape or even some types of date rape.<BR>> > > Anti-abortion activists have long been concerned that women would falsely<BR>> > > claim to have been raped to gain an exemption to terminate a pregnancy.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Historians and other experts on abortion politics say the no-exceptions<BR>> > > idea became part of the debate virtually as soon as Roe v. Wade legalized<BR>> > > abortion in 1973. “It has deep roots,” said Donald <SPAN id=misspell-42 class=mark>Critchlow</SPAN>, a historian<BR>> > > at Arizona State University who has studied abortion politics. He added,<BR>> > > “It’s
appealing to segments within the Republican Party to show that<BR>> > you’re<BR>> > > pro-life.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Susan Cohen, director of government affairs for the <SPAN id=misspell-43 class=mark>Guttmacher</SPAN><BR>> > Institute, a<BR>> > > research group in Washington that supports abortion rights, said the<BR>> > > no-exceptions idea is “not new and it’s not fringe.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > “It is something that has been part of mainstream anti-abortion<BR>> > movement,”<BR>> > > she said. “The record is replete with evidence of the fact that there was<BR>> > > this no-exceptions attitude, and of course this makes logical sense from<BR>> > > the perspective of people who believe an embryo should have the same<BR>> > legal<BR>> > > status as you and I do.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > In the 1992 election,
the Republican Party included in its platform<BR>> > > language opposing abortion, allowing no exceptions and calling for a<BR>> > > constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal. Similar language<BR>> > > opposing any exceptions was included in 2000 and 2004, even though George<BR>> > > W. Bush also supported outlawing abortion except in cases of rape,<BR>> > incest,<BR>> > > or when the life of the woman was in danger.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Four years ago, the Republican Party adopted a platform seeking an<BR>> > > unconditional ban on abortion, though its nominee, Senator John McCain,<BR>> > had<BR>> > > urged the party in the past to allow certain exceptions. After this<BR>> > year’s<BR>> > > abortion plank language was approved with little debate, the chairman of<BR>> > > the platform committee, Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia,
praised the<BR>> > > committee for “affirming our respect for human life.”<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Pam <SPAN id=misspell-44 class=mark>Belluck</SPAN> and Michael Cooper contributed reporting from New York.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > --<BR>> > > Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR>> > > <A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A><BR>> > ><BR>> > ><BR>> ><BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-45 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>> > <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net/</A><BR>> >
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