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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney-Ryan, the death squad ticket? (brutal piece about Romney)
Which presidential candidate is truly pro-life?
By Nicholas P. Cafardi
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There is no doubt Obama is pro-choice. He has said so many times. There is also no doubt Romney is running on what he calls a pro-life platform. But any honest analysis of the facts shows the situation is much more complicated than that.
For example, Obama's Affordable Care Act does not pay for abortions. In Massachusetts, Romney's health care law does. Obama favors, and included in the Affordable Care Act, $250 million of support for vulnerable pregnant women and alternatives to abortion. This support will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic. Romney, on the other hand, has endorsed Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's budget, which will cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of the federal plans that support poor women. The undoubted effect: The number of abortions in the United States will increase. On these facts, Obama is much more pro-life than Romney.
But let's not stop there. Obama does not financially profit from the abortion industry. Romney does. Bain Capital, in the time Romney was listed as its legal head and even when he was attending Bain board meetings, was an owner of Stericycle, a major disposer of the dead bodies of aborted children in the United States. (See: Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show.) Bain owned a share of Stericycle until 2004, selling its interest for a profit in the tens of millions of dollars. We can parse what Romney's 1999 "retroactive retirement" from Bain means, but he still gets an annual payout from the firm. To the extent those dollars are part of Bain's Stericycle profits, a strong argument exists that Romney is an abortion profiteer. How pro-life is that?
And it has long been known that millions of Bain Capital's original outside funding, solicited by Romney himself, came from wealthy El Salvadorian clans, some of whom, while they were funding Bain, were "linked to right wing death squads." (Salt Lake Tribune, 1999; See also: Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads.) Death squads killed tens of thousands of mostly poor people in El Salvador. They also killed priests, nuns and Archbishop Oscar Romero. How pro-life is that? How pro-life is taking the money of these people and doubling or tripling it for them? And did any of their Bain profits fund more death squads? Before we endorse Romney's "pro-life" claims, isn't it important for us to know that?...Based on the above record, he, and not Obama, is the anti-life, "pro-abortion" candidate.
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http://ncronline.org/news/politics/which-presidential-candidate-truly-pro-life
By Nicholas P. Cafardi
<...>
There is no doubt Obama is pro-choice. He has said so many times. There is also no doubt Romney is running on what he calls a pro-life platform. But any honest analysis of the facts shows the situation is much more complicated than that.
For example, Obama's Affordable Care Act does not pay for abortions. In Massachusetts, Romney's health care law does. Obama favors, and included in the Affordable Care Act, $250 million of support for vulnerable pregnant women and alternatives to abortion. This support will make abortions much less likely, since most abortions are economic. Romney, on the other hand, has endorsed Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's budget, which will cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of the federal plans that support poor women. The undoubted effect: The number of abortions in the United States will increase. On these facts, Obama is much more pro-life than Romney.
But let's not stop there. Obama does not financially profit from the abortion industry. Romney does. Bain Capital, in the time Romney was listed as its legal head and even when he was attending Bain board meetings, was an owner of Stericycle, a major disposer of the dead bodies of aborted children in the United States. (See: Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show.) Bain owned a share of Stericycle until 2004, selling its interest for a profit in the tens of millions of dollars. We can parse what Romney's 1999 "retroactive retirement" from Bain means, but he still gets an annual payout from the firm. To the extent those dollars are part of Bain's Stericycle profits, a strong argument exists that Romney is an abortion profiteer. How pro-life is that?
And it has long been known that millions of Bain Capital's original outside funding, solicited by Romney himself, came from wealthy El Salvadorian clans, some of whom, while they were funding Bain, were "linked to right wing death squads." (Salt Lake Tribune, 1999; See also: Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads.) Death squads killed tens of thousands of mostly poor people in El Salvador. They also killed priests, nuns and Archbishop Oscar Romero. How pro-life is that? How pro-life is taking the money of these people and doubling or tripling it for them? And did any of their Bain profits fund more death squads? Before we endorse Romney's "pro-life" claims, isn't it important for us to know that?...Based on the above record, he, and not Obama, is the anti-life, "pro-abortion" candidate.
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http://ncronline.org/news/politics/which-presidential-candidate-truly-pro-life
Ouch!
Add this to the condemnation of religious leaders and "death squad" seems appropriate.
OUCH! Why Religious Leaders Have Condemned The Ryan-Romney Budget
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021126205
Dear factchecking organizations, please feel free to call out religious leaders and Romney's detractors among Catholics.
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Romney-Ryan, the death squad ticket? (brutal piece about Romney) (Original Post)
ProSense
Aug 2012
OP
ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)2. k/r
That El Salvador connection really shows the guy has no ethical grounding.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. Death squads, offshoring, tax evasion. n/t
silverweb
(16,402 posts)4. Excellent piece!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)5. It nails Romney. n/t
silverweb
(16,402 posts)7. It does, indeed.
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Thanks for posting it!
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)6. k & freakin R! nt
eridani
(51,907 posts)8. The Ryan budget directly recommends mass murder with Medicare voucherization
"Death squad" is no exaggeration at all IMO
ProSense
(116,464 posts)9. It's appropriate. n/t
Before I read it, I thought this was referring to the other death squads.
We have a guy running for president that when someone refers to his death squad, people have to wonder which one we're talking about. It doesn't get any more messed up than that.*
*Not meant as a literal prediction. I've got a feeling something worse is going to come out about either Romney or Ryan. It's just the kind of guys they are.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)12. I'm still
waiting for Mitt's media allies to slam these groups.