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Boston Catholic Insider has an update. Romney just flat-out told a huge, whopping falsehood. Quoting just a small part of the web site’s much longer, quite definitive post, with my emphases in bolded italics.
Here is part of the state directive to hospitals :
“To ensure that particular hospital staff’s values or beliefs do not interfere with compliance with the law, the hospital must institute systems to ensure that all female rape victims of childbearing age are promptly provided medically and factually accurate information about emergency contraception, are promptly offered emergency contraception, and emergency contraception is initiated upon her request.”
This is directly at odds with the Massachusetts Constitution, which says:
Article II: “no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.”
Article XVIII, Section 1 (amendment): “No law shall be passed prohibiting the free exercise of religion.”
And it is directly at odds with a conscience exemption law passed in 1975 and still in effect that says:
“…any employee of a hospital or other health facility in which an abortion…is scheduled and who shall state in writing an objection to such abortion…procedure on moral or religious grounds, shall not be required to participate in the medical procedures which result in such abortion…”
Reminder: Romney’s own health department lawyers announced in public that Catholic hospitals were exempt from the law — and then Romney himself overruled them. This puts Romney on the state level in the same position Obama is in nationally: Trampling the rights of religious freedom.
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Floyd Looney | 2.27.12 @ 11:25AM
Like I have always said, Romney is not a conservative. He is not conservative fiscally, socially or culturally. It looks like about a quarter of the primary voters are too blind to this.
Silver Bullet| 2.27.12 @ 11:34AM
Quin, do you know whether Romney has specifically and explicitly disowned this executive order of late? Has anyone asked him?
Of course, I am still "all in" for Santorum.
I notice that the latest smear is about his opinion of JFK's speech to the evangelicals in Houston in 1960. Well, guess what? Santorum is absolutely correct. JFK was wrong, because there is no "wall of separation" in the Constitution. If anything, these days, it is the Church(es) that need a "wall" to keep the secular theocrat-bureaucrats from enforcing a secular "religion" everywhere but within the 4 walls of houses of worship.
This is key: President Obama is quoted as saying he believes in "freedom of worship," which is NOT the same thing as freedom of religion. Intrinsic to Christianity is the command to "make disciples of all nations." It is a necessary component of the practice of Christianity that we EVANGELIZE, or what radical secular "theo-bureaucrats" call "proselytizing." As part of evangelization, the Catholic Church has not just the God-given "right" to run hospitals, orphanages, adoption agencies, etc, etc -- it has the Jesus-given COMMAND, in that "evangelization" demands these sorts of outreaches in the context of "feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, clothing the naked," etc.
Obama's sycophant, Sebelius, who is about as apostate a "Catholic" as there is, is deliberately violating Catholics' consciences. This is a decision that will not stand. There will be "war" of a sort -- civil disobedience; if necessary, I'd even recommend to the Bishops that they close down all affected Catholic organizations in one fell swoop this year, and see how Obama likes the outcry.
Kingofthenet| 2.27.12 @ 11:56AM
You people don't get it, so here it is REAL simple, YOUR Wacko Religious Rights END AT YOUR NOSE, YOU don't PERSONALLY have to use 'Emergency Contraception' or any other type, you cannot Stop others from doing it, get it?
kingsmill| 2.27.12 @ 12:06PM
You are either invincibly ignorant or merely a Willard hack, or perhaps just a dimwitted Lefty troll.
The issue is conscience protection which even Teddy Kennedy supported. You can abort, sterilize, contracept or euthanize yourself into oblivion but do not require a Catholic institution to assist you.
Maxwell| 2.27.12 @ 1:45PM
kingsmill, correct me if I am wrong, was there a picture of Mittens with Kennedy standing behind him as he signed Mittens-care? I recall Kennedy was smiling like the Cheshire Cat.
kingsmill| 2.27.12 @ 3:25PM
Yes, the same picture showed Mitt yucking it up with convicted felon, former Democratic Mass. Speaker Sal DiMasi. All of the Leftist Massholes were very comfortable with Willards in the corner office.
Silver Bullet| 2.27.12 @ 12:08PM
@Kingofthenet: If we own the hospitals, yes, we do have the right! If you don't like our hospitals, then go somewhere else, or build your own. No one is stopping you.
Your unjustified, irrational anger leads me to believe that there is some disquiet in your soul. Deep in your conscience, you do know that "emergency contraception" actually does lead to an inhospitable uterine environment that will not accept a newly created human being. You know that this is wrong, and perhaps you have personally been involved in such an action, and your conscience causes you pain, which erupts as your anger.
Be not afraid! There is forgiveness and absolution for those who seek it in humility. Gain some humility, save your soul. Humility: the antidote to that primordial sin, pride, which led to humanity's ''grasping'' at the tree of life in the "garden of eden."
Come home, friend. Jesus loves you, too.
Kingofthenet| 2.27.12 @ 12:24PM
Hey you FOOL, people in Emergency Situations don't get to 'Hospital Shop' there are taken to the closest one for treatment. I can't be concerned that it's owned by some Religious Crazies that will pick and choose what kind of care i can get. If you want to do that, fine close down the ER and take ONLY elective type care, AFTER you warn the people about your WEIRD beliefs.
Jeremiah Smirking| 2.27.12 @ 1:07PM
Good luck making that point come Judgment Day, your majesty.
Silver Bullet| 2.27.12 @ 4:41PM
Since when is "emergency contraception" (sic) such an "emergency" that you can't drive to the next hospital? We aren't talking about emergency heart surgery, are we now? Hmmm?
Hold a mirror up to yourself, dear friend: do you know yourself? You are spiritually exhausted from trying to deny the Truth. You need to rest: "Come to me all you who are weary," says Jesus.
Please take my comment sincerely. You need to do some soul-searching as to the source of your deep disquiet, your lack of peace. Jesus says: "I leave you peace; my peace I give to you."
It is free for the asking. Please visit a priest and learn the Truth. Your whole life will be transfigured. You will know joy that apparently has escaped you for many years. Truly, that is "good news" -- also known as "Gospel"!!
May God bless you when you least expect it!!
morian | 2.27.12 @ 12:03PM
i like what you said
Oldefarte| 2.27.12 @ 2:55PM
'.....In 2005, Romney revealed a change of view regarding abortion, moving from an "unequivocal" pro-choice position expressed during his 2002 campaign to a pro-life one where he opposed Roe v. Wade.[142] He vetoed a bill on pro-life grounds that would expand access to emergency contraception in hospitals and pharmacies[156] (the veto was overridden by the legislature).[157].....'
Pete| 2.27.12 @ 9:11PM
Sound like a political opportunist to me.
MassManny| 2.27.12 @ 3:23PM
Gov. Romney's Chief Legal Counsel at the time, Mark Nielsen, who authored the absurd directive contradicting the law & the constitution, PRO-abortion. He received $12K from the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition PAC when he ran for Congress in Conn. in 2000:
http://www.campaignmoney.com/p.....p?cycle=00
Oldefarte| 2.27.12 @ 5:00PM
'.....Santorum a Good Man in Wrong Century
Monday, February 27, 2012 09:57 AM
By: Kathleen Parker
Let me be blunt: If Republicans nominate Rick Santorum, they will lose.
The prospect of four more years of Barack Obama holds some appeal for many Americans, but probably not for most Republicans. It may give doubters among them some comfort, however, to know that Obama and Santorum share the same prayer: that Santorum be the Republican nominee.
It gives me no pleasure to rap Santorum, a man I know and respect even if I disagree with him on some issues. Not that he minds. He's a scrapper who loves a fight — and he forgives. Bottom line: Santorum is a good man. He's just a good man in the wrong century.
This doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong about everything, but he's so far out of step with the majority of Americans that he can't hope to win the votes of moderates and independents so crucial to victory in November. The Republican Party's insistence on conservative purity, meanwhile, will result in the cold comfort of defeat with honor and, in the longer term, potential extinction.
Increasingly, the party is growing grayer and whiter. Nine out of 10 Republicans are non-Hispanic white and about half are highly religious, according to Gallup. This isn't news, but when this demographic is suddenly associated with renewed debate about whether women should have access to contraception — never mind abortion — suddenly they begin to look like the Republican Brotherhood.
Add to that perception the abhorrent, pre-abortion ultrasound legislation proposed in Virginia, and you can kiss the Pope's ring and voters' retreating backsides.
The proposed law, temporarily tabled, called for women seeking an abortion to be forced to submit to a vaginal ultrasound. Aldous Huxley's "The Devils of Loudon" comes to mind, but he was writing about exorcisms in a convent of 17th-century France. When did Republicans, who supposedly believe in less government intervention, begin thinking that invading a person's body against her will was remotely acceptable?
Saner minds have prevailed, at least for now, but the fact that the bill was ever conceived and taken seriously by at least some number of legislators gives freedom-loving voters every reason to run the other way.
Informed consent is, in my view, a reasonable goal. Surely removal of a human fetus deserves the same level of awareness we would insist upon in removing, say, a gall bladder. If some women change their minds after viewing the contents of their womb, then they obviously needed more information than they had going in. Still, any procedure should be voluntary, and inserting a probe into a woman against her will is rape by any other name.
Obviously, this is no place for the state.
The Virginia bill and the broader (bogus) message often repeated on left-leaning talk shows that Republicans are campaigning against birth control have created a perfect storm for defeat. The math is clear: Sixty-seven percent of women are either Democrats (41 percent) or independents (26 percent); more women than men vote; 55 percent of women ages 18-22 voted in the 2008 presidential election.
Republicans are caught in a nearly impossible situation, none more than the more temperate-minded Mitt Romney. It is important to remember, however, why contraception came up in the first place. Republicans were forced to man their battlements by the Obama administration's new healthcare rule mandating that Catholic organizations pay for contraception in violation of conscience.
From there, things spiraled out of the realm of religious liberty, where this debate belongs, and into the fray of moral differences.
Santorum's original surge was based not on social issues but on his authenticity and his ability to identify with middle-class struggles. He was the un-Romney. But now this appealing profile has been occluded by social positions that make him an outlier to mainstream Americans.
Republicans may sleep better if they nominate The most conservative person in the world, but they won't be seeing the executive branch anytime soon. It's too bad this election season got lost in the weeds of religious conviction. It wouldn't have happened if the Obama administration had simply taken one of several other routes available for providing birth control to women who want it.
Instead, Obama aimed right at the heart of the Republican Party and, one can only assume, got exactly what he wanted: a culture war in which Rick Santorum would be the natural point man and, in the broader public's perception, the voice of the GOP......'
Pete| 2.27.12 @ 9:11PM
There is nothing more "temperate" about RomneyCare and Romney requiring Religious institutions to violate their own religious principals. The issue is about the first amendment, not women taking contraceptives.
Scott Ryan| 2.28.12 @ 12:09AM
Newt wants YOU to vote Santorum in Michigan (opinion)
http://www.TableOfWisdom.com
tall wall| 2.28.12 @ 7:50AM
Romney saved the slc ut Olympics
Hitler saved the berlin germany Olympics.
These were not to make them good people, just hateful powerful people.
angelpain | 3.15.12 @ 2:41PM
i like it and agree about what you said