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Columbus : OH : USA | Oct 10, 2012 at 11:50 PM PDT
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US President Barack Obama (R) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) end the first presidential debate

The issue of abortion has resurfaced after Mitt Romney restated his position on it Wednesday, saying he would try his best to cut the rate of abortion in the US and across the world if Americans vote him to become commander in chief of the United States.

The Republican presidential was speaking to reporters at a campaign stop in Ohio. Romney said until now there has been no legislation on protections for life and that he would support formulation of laws meant to save lives. His comments came less than 24 hours after he told the Des Moines Register that he saw no legislation concerning abortion that would become part of his agenda.

"I think I've said time and again, I'm a pro-life candidate. I'll be a pro-life president," Romney said, accord to LA Times. "The actions I'll take immediately are to remove funding for Planned Parenthood. It will not be part of my budget. And also I've indicated I'll reverse the Mexico City position of the president. I will reinstate the Mexico City policy.”

Obama dashed into the issue from the White House and accused the Republican presidential nominee of purposefully changing positions on a variety of issues. Obama alleged that Romney is trying to cloud the question when it comes to women rights of making decision regarding their healthcare.

Romney’s earlier position on abortion put him at odds with his running mate Paul Ryan and with some segments of his major electorate, who are staunch opponents of abortion rights.

Inquired about Romney's Iowa comments, Ryan said there was no difference between him and Romney on any issue.

"Our positions unified," Ryan told reporters outside an ice cream shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Our position is consistent and hasn't changed."

The Republican presidential candidate’s remarks and the follow-on back-and-forth have produced a remarkable, if unplanned, harmony between the two campaigns. Both campaigns are quarreling that Romney appeared more committed to the anti-abortion issue than his statements in Iowa would imply.

Some political pundits think that the Republican presidential nominee’s pin to the center could generate some snags for his VP nominee, who lands in Kentucky today to the fore of Thursday's debate at Centre College in Danville.

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Posted By ProtectCanada ProtectCanada | 7 months ago
you know you can't trust someone when they flip flop this much.

How does anyone put their faith in this guy when he changes his position every other day?
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Posted By FloridaFan FloridaFan | 7 months ago
Where's the flip-flop? One day he says he is pro-life. The next day he says he is against abortion. Oh the flip-flopping of it all. Sorry, folks. A headline does not make a story, unless the story is desperate Lefties looking for something, anything to twist against the candidate.
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Reply By LibertyBell777 LibertyBell777 | 7 months ago
During the primaries Romney tried to appease his hard-right conservatives by talking about doing away with Planned Parenthood, sighing a personhood amendment (which would not only outlaw abortions but some contraceptions also), that he didn't believe in exceptions in the case of rape, that he would support any legislation that came to his desk to criminalize abortion and that he would appoint Supreme Court justices that would overturn Roe v. Wde. Now that he is neck-and-neck with Obama and needing to gain ground from the woman vote - he is "oh, I see no legislation concerning abortion that would become part of my agenda". Don't worry ladies - I didn't mean all that stuff I said for the past two years.

Romney has the spine of a wet noodle and will say anything to please whatever audience he is speeking to at the time. Then his campaign has to release statements "oh, he didn't really mean that". He is the king of flip-flops and everyone knows it.

And his running mate, Ryan, doesn't believe in abortions even when the health and safety of the mother is at risk. He has signed 34 pieces of legislation on abortion and wants a "personhood" amendment that defines a "person" at conception and would put the rights of the unborn over the rights of the mother and criminalize women for any harm to a fetus - intentional or not. I can just see the government keeping track of pregnancies and investigating every miscarriage in case the woman needs put in jail for causing harm to her fetus.
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Reply By FloridaFan FloridaFan | 7 months ago
As opposed to Obama, who voted to abort babies who survived the original attempted abortion. Any woman with a heart could buy into that.
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Posted By agb100 agb100 | 7 months ago
MOTHER OF SLAIN STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL TIRED OF OBAMA ADMINISTRATION LYING ABOUT THE DEATH OF HER SON!

VIDEO ON CNN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=A3ldyGsZ1Io
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Reply By LibertyBell777 LibertyBell777 | 7 months ago
GOP demonstrates facility for exploiting security for politics
Rachel Maddow excoriates Mitt Romney for trying to exploit the deadly attacks in Benghazi for political benefit and shames Republicans for voting against funding for embassy security and then in the final days of the campaign making a political stunt of embassy security.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/49367830#49367830
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Reply By FloridaFan FloridaFan | 7 months ago
Rachel Maddow is so biased to the left that she walks in circles. First, it was the "video". An outright lie. When that wouldn't fly, they shifted the blame to the Republicans for cutting the security budget at the State Department. Totally overlooking the failure of the Dems to even debate a budget in the Senate, let alone pass one. So, are we to believe that the continuing refusals to boost security at tne consulate, despite numerous specific requests from the Ambassador, running up to 9/11, was because of Republican budget cuts. Until last year the Dems had full control of the government but would not propose a budget. The only people who would buy that blame-shifting are so far up the Dems brainstems they can't see daylight.
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Posted By joycesingha joycesingha | 7 months ago
As a woman it doesn't make one bit of a difference to me; I believe what I believe regardless. Obama has changed positions many many times, perhaps you could mention that as well to make your report objective.
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Reply By LibertyBell777 LibertyBell777 | 7 months ago
Obama hasn't changed positions many many times. He has had to compromise some of his positions for the sake of helping people. The only example I can think of where his position has changed is gay marriage. He has always supported gays having civil unions and equal rights for gay couples with rights to benefits, etc. Now he believes that those rights extend to marriage. That's a far cry from Romney saying whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear and then his campaign having to say "oh, he didn't really mean that" almost daily.

His debate lies were the perfect example of this. He wanted to not present himself as the right-wing conservative that he has been saying he is the past two years and metamorph into the moderate Romney that "knows some regulations are good" and whose healthcare plan would cover pre-existing conditions and he wouldn't do away with all Obamacare, and he really isn't planning to cut taxes that would cost 5 trillion dollars over 10 years - he can find 5 trillion dollars of loopholes to end (hint - there aren't 5 trillion dollars of loopholes so he's going to have to DRASTICALLY cut spending somewhere).

He's a snakeoil salesman promising things he cannot possibly deliver - the pie in the sky - health wealthy and happiness for all. He does not have any plan to tackle the very real problems we have - just empty promises.

Obama has a plan and it is working and HIS PLAN doesn't add to the deficit but actually cuts the deficit - cutting waste without singling out benefits that help the poor and middle-class. He wants to keep the tax cuts he's already given to 98% of Americans - extend the Bush tax cuts for 98% of Americans and only raise taxes on income OVER $200,000 by a couple percentage points. It's a balanced approach and one that is compassionate and understand that a strong middle-class, investments in educations and clearn energy and new technology is what makes the economy grow.
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Reply By FloridaFan FloridaFan | 7 months ago
Try to fit these two ideas in one statement: $6 trillion in new debt in one term and he has a plan to cut the deficit

If he had one why didn't he implement it by now? Because the Obama plan is to cut the US to the ground, bankrupt it and build a new socialist state in its place.

That's what has been working. But it is about to stop.
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Reply By Keevin Keevin | 7 months ago
Very good LibertyBell777, and well said. Too bad we can't have you doing some of the debating with the republinos. Do have one question though. How come your points are so clear yet so many people blindly will still vote for the mitt?
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Posted By Keevin Keevin | 7 months ago
This is one reason people vote for republinos because they can't make up their mind either.
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Posted By FloridaFan FloridaFan | 7 months ago
Compromise vs. Change. A distinction without a difference.
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Reply By Keevin Keevin | 7 months ago
two different words that can have two different meanings.
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Posted By mrsnaye mrsnaye | 7 months ago
Jennifer, if you are going to refer to an interview please use the actual quote instead of so obviously misrepresenting what was said. Here is an exact quote from Romney during the interview with the Des Moines Register.

"There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda."

He's saying there is nothing current that he knows about. The following day he says he would make legislation. He didn't flip flop. You are showing your bias with your so-called story.
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Posted By DeTaxUS Cory Layne | 7 months ago
First off, we are not electing a "commander in chief of the U.S.", we are electing a president to preside over the Administrative Branch of the federal union. As president he will also be the commander-in-chief of the military forces which are part of the Administrative Branch.

Huge distinction there. Though some media have referred to electing our "rulers", America has no ruler, monarch, emperor, or other such tyrant-in-charge. We the People are supposed to be in charge through our elected representatives who are supposed to be protecting our rights and making the rules on our behalf. They are not doing a very good job of that and have for the past three administrations made more rules that violate our rights than have protected them.

As to the abortion controversy, I'm pretty much middle-of-the-road. Though I believe abortion to be morally wrong, in that it is the taking of a human life, I feel that as long as the embryo or fetus is dependent on the mother for its sustenance, the mother should be able to choose whether to go full term or abort early on. Until the fetus is actually delivered, that is until the mother actually gives "birth" to the infant, its right to life is secondary to the woman's rights to life, liberty, and her pursuit of happiness. For most women, getting pregnant and having children brings much happiness; for some others, misery. Only the woman knows for sure, and only she can make the best choice for her future happiness. I would, however, like to see defunding of abortions at the federal level. Those of us who disapprove of abortion for whatever reason shouldn't be forced to pay for it through tax dollars.
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