Mitt Romney’s SC Trip Is Going Pretty Well So Far

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FITSNews – January 29, 2007 - Let’s see … Mitt Romney was in Charleston this morning touting three marginally significant political endorsements and veteran reporter Bruce Smith of the Associated Press showed up.

Hmmmm. Wonder what’s about to happen here?

Well, if you guessed that Bruce Smith was going to largely ignore the three irrelevent endorsements and grill Romney on something hypercontroversial like abortion, then you’re ready for a job on the former governor’s press staff – and after this morning’s train wreck there’s probably going to be an opening available soon. As in today.

Romney got what we in the business like to call “the question,” the one about his pro-life credentials.

Here’s what he had to say (along with some excerpts from the Bruce Smith article):

“Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice,” he said. “I never called myself that as a label but I was effectively pro-choice and that followed a personal experience in my extended family that led to that conclusion.”

That family member was killed in an illegal abortion in the 1960s, Romney said.

Calling the issue “a very tender and sensitive subject” for women and all Americans, Romney said he has given the matter much thought.

Once, during a discussion with leaders from Harvard University about stem cell research, Romney said someone commented it’s not really a moral issue because the embryos used are destroyed at 14 days.

“It struck me very powerfully at that point that the Roe v. Wade approach has so cheapened the value of human life that somebody could think it’s not a moral issue to destroy embryos,” Romney said.

He added every decision he made as governor “in a very liberal state has been on the side of favoring life,” he said. “I am firmly pro-life.”

Yeah. The only way Mitt could have made that exchange any worse would have been to say that he was aborted.

But shook it off.

Because he was one tough fetus, people.