Romney under fire for not signing anti-abortion pledge.....

[angus]

Uh oh......when will he flip on this?  When someone calls him a pro-choice candidate?

The same article states that he wrote an op-ed piece in National Review explaining that he is against abortion generally and supports the reversal of Roe v. Wade.  But the SBA List's "well-meaning pledge is overly broad and would have unintended consequences."

I've read of the pledge, and what he says is true.  You can read it for yourself here.  Were he to become president, he wouldn't want to support legislation that would end all federal funding of thousands of hospitals around the country.  

I'm not a huge defender of Mitt Romney, but it looks to me like he's taking a principled stand here.  And I don't think Romney should have any trouble defending his position among reasonable anti-abortion voters.

[angus]

Funny that libertarian hero Ron Paul is attacking Romney for not signing a pledge to nationalize women's uteruses.

uteri.  And what SBA List wants to do is the opposite of nationalizing them. 

But I agree that it is at first ironic that Ron Paul, of all people, would chime in at all.  But when you actually read the pledge, it only asks for four things, and all of those except the last one essentially limit the federal government.  So really it's very Paulite.  Maybe even Randian.