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Mitt Romney has been taking a lot of heat, and deservedly, for his refusal<\/a> to sign<\/a> the Susan B. Anthony List<\/em>‘s 2010 Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge<\/a>. This was a pledge almost tailor-made for Romney to sign–as Penny Nance over at Concerned Women for America<\/em>‘s blog notes<\/a>, Romney had much to gain and little to lose:<\/p>\n

I understand pledges may not mean much when it comes right down to it, but Mitt Romney especially stood to gain a lot with a show of support for basic pro-life principles. Many social conservatives view his candidacy with skepticism because he was against pro-life freedom before he was for it.\u00a0 Not to sign the pledge is a strategic error on his part if he means to solidify his support among pro-life Americans, a number that is growing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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After all, the four promises in the pledge are very predictable policy goals that anyone who knows anything about the contemporary state of pro-life politics would be unsurprised to find there. An already wishy-washy candidate<\/a> like Romney, who claims to be pro-life while supporting the abortion of children conceived through rape and incest<\/a>, is given a lot<\/em> of cover by a pledge that sticks to basic, near-term policy goals rather than asking for definitive ideological commitments. Not only does Romney’s refusal to sign the pledge re-ignite concerns about his views on abortion–it makes it seem that he is no longer even concerned about appearing it be pro-life.<\/p>\n

Romney’s flat-out opposition to some of the provisions in the pledge indicates that may be the case. Top Romney adviser Jim Talent had this<\/a> to say to FOX News about the SBA pledge plank “to select only pro-life appointees for relevant Cabinet and Executive Branch positions, in particular the head of National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health & Human Services”:<\/p>\n

Talent went on to say\u00a0 that Romney’s decision was based\u00a0 on what the campaign said are overly broad requirement of the pledge that would prohibit the consideration of any pro-choice appointee, even if that appointment is for a non-health-related position.<\/p>\n

“He (Romney) doesn’t want to say he’s disqualified from considering people who may not agree with him on everything on that issue for a job like\u00a0FBI<\/a> director, ” said Talent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s pretty damning. An admission from the top levels of Romney’s organization that Candidate Romney wants to appoint pro-aborts to the Department of Justice–in leadership roles like director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, no less. The FBI is the division of DOJ that in a pro-life administration would be responsible for investigating Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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