Subject: Watch: Romney endorses "personhood" amendment
From: "Patrick Gaspard, Democrats.org" <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 15:21:49 -0400

The Democratic Party
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Robert --

Mitt Romney has taken a position that every woman in this country 
should know about:

When asked on Fox News whether he would have supported a 
"personhood" constitutional amendment, Mitt said, "Absolutely."

"Personhood" amendments are the notorious measures now being 
considered in states like Mississippi, Florida, and Ohio, that would 
elevate a fertilized human egg to the status of a legal person. They 
would ban IUDs, the morning-after pill, in-vitro fertilization, and all 
abortions -- with no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape 
or incest or in cases where the life of a woman is at stake.

In other words, a leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president 
is on the record in favor of a law that would classify literally all abortions 
-- and even many forms of birth control -- as murder. 

To be clear: This is the most radical position any of the Republican 
candidates have taken on this issue, and may be the most radical 
position any of them have taken on any substantive issue in the race 
for the nomination so far.

Mitt has an uncanny ability to change course depending on the day, 
so we put together a video to show exactly where he stands on a 
woman's right to choose -- whether she's choosing emergency contraception, 
or to save her own life.

Watch it, and then say you'll be with us in holding him accountable:

http://my.democrats.org/Hold-Mitt-Accountable3

Romney, who has held a variety of positions on abortion in his 17 years 
of running for public office, presumably understands the implications of 
criminalizing birth control and abortion.

If he wants to be in the national spotlight, if he thinks he deserves to be trusted 
with the highest political office on the planet, he has to be willing to take 
responsibility for his words and the consequences of the policies he claims 
to support.

This is so much bigger than his political calculations. It's literally a life-or-death 
proposition, and it's not limited to Mississippi, Ohio, or Florida. Personhood 
amendments like the one in Mississippi are a direct affront to the federal right 
to privacy afforded by Roe vs. Wade.

If Romney wants to take the position that abortion and birth control are equal 
to murder, that's up to him. But we'll hold him accountable for it, and not let 
anyone forget that he's made the choice to go this far to the right on this issue:

http://my.democrats.org/Hold-Mitt-Accountable3

I'll report back soon,

--Patrick

Patrick Gaspard
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

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