A follow up to my post, which may be read here, regarding Steve Jobs, Adoption and Abortion. Pro-lifers have gotten some static for bringing up the fact that Steve Jobs could have ended up aborted if his mother had not chosen life for him. Well, it appears that Steve Jobs was thankful that his mother did not choose to kill him through abortion.
“I wanted to meet [her] mostly to see if she was OK and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion,” he said. “She was 23 and she went through a lot to have me.”
Go here to read the rest. Adoption, it’s a choice we can all live with.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has drawn suspicion from the right for his flip-flopping on abortion, but he’s not the first candidate to change his view on the issue before seeking the White House.
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Dick Gephardt and Al Gore also shifted on abortion as they set their sights on the presidency. When Romney was running for the Senate from Massachusetts against Ted Kennedy in 1994, he took a pro-abortion stance in the decidedly blue state.
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country,” he said during a debate. "I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it.”
Romney also was a supporter of abortion rights when he ran successfully for Massachusetts governor in 2002.
But he said he had a change of heart in 2004 during the debate over stem cell research, when the governor met with experts from Harvard at his State House office.
This is an interesting posture piece by this man, packaged in a way to rehabilitate his image.
But Reagan's true feelings on the matter were different then this. He was like most of Hollywood and his fellow actors in supporting a woman's right to chose an abortion.
But Reagan's true feelings on the matter were different then this. He was like most of Hollywood and his fellow actors in supporting a woman's right to chose an abortion.
