Romney Needs to Make Up His Mind About Birth Control
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March 1, 2012
Romney Needs to Make Up His Mind About Birth Control
WASHINGTON - March 1 - Yesterday afternoon, presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a reporter that he would not support the Senates Blunt amendment, which would endanger access to reproductive care for as many as 20 million American women, saying, Look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, husband and wife, Im not going there." An hour later, his campaign told reporters that Romney does, in fact, support the Blunt amendment.
Its hardly a surprise to get a flip-flop from Mitt Romney, but such a quick turnabout on an issue critical to the lives of millions of women is staggering, said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way.
Romney is trying to have it both ways: saying he doesnt want to get in the way of personal decisions about birth control, and then supporting a law that would do just that. The Blunt amendment would set American women back decades and American women know that. In his lightning-fast flip-flop, Romney has shown once again that hes more interested in catering to an extreme right-wing base than to the common-sense needs of the people he wants to lead.
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