Abortion

Jun 15, 2007 - Boston, MA – Today, Governor Mitt Romney will deliver remarks at the National Right to Life Convention Forum in Kansas City, MO. Governor Romney will speak about the importance of protecting the sanctity of human life and defending traditional marriage. Below is the full text of Governor Romney's remarks as prepared for delivery.

Governor Romney's Remarks To The National Right To Life Convention Forum (As Prepared For Delivery):

"Thank you Carol. We appreciate your many years of dedicated service to the cause of life.    » read more »

Signed legislation forcing taxpayers to fund abortions as governor

June 15, 2007 -- DES MOINES— Although Mitt Romney signed legislation expanding taxpayer-funded abortions in Massachusetts, his campaign said Thursday that Romney is proud of his actions as governor pertaining to abortion.

As governor, Romney signed "Commonwealth Care" into law, legislation that forced taxpayers to pay for abortions and mandated that a member of the legislation's policy board be appointed by Planned Parenthood.    » read more »

Romney said he was "absolutely committed" towards keeping pro-abortion laws, six months after his alleged pro-life conversion

June 14, 2007 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va— A new YouTube video released yesterday shows presidential candidate Mitt Romney's alleged pro-life conversion story to be chronologically false and misleading.

Romney's own comments on the abortion issue have been as follows:

1994: Mitt Romney was pro-choice:    » read more »

Rejects GOP Platform on Abortion - A Human Life Amendment to the Constitution

June 4, 2007 - ALEXANDRIA, Va-- Presidential candidate Mitt Romney refused to call abortion "murder" at an event in Laconia, New Hampshire last week, stating that murder "means different things to different people."

Romney instead stated abortion is the taking of a human life, that the unborn "is alive and human" at the point of conception, but that states should define their own abortion laws.    » read more »

Courts Would Likely Find Wisconsin’s Law Still Suffers From Constitutional Infirmities

May 31, 2007 -- MADISON - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued an informal legal opinion today concluding that the United States District Court would not lift the injunction that currently prevents the enforcement of Wisconsin’s partial birth abortion law, Wis. Stat. § 940.16. The informal opinion was issued in response to correspondence received from Senate Republican Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va—U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, Republican candidate for President, today commented on recent pro-life legislation in Texas, State Senate Bill 920, which would enhance the informed consent provision on in-state abortions.

"Any and every effort to affirm the dignity of the unborn should be embraced. Period," Brownback said.    » read more »

Governor’s Bill Will Guarantee a Woman’s Right to Make Decisions Related to Her Personal Reproductive Health

April 25, 2007 -- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer today announced his plans to submit legislation that will update New York's laws pertaining to reproductive rights and establish a fundamental, statutory right to privacy for women in making personal reproductive decisions.    » read more »

Federal Abortion Ban Gives Politicians Green Light to Practice Medicine

NEW YORK — On Wednesday, April 25, Planned Parenthood supporters will hold rallies and demonstrations to express outrage over the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the federal abortion ban. On April 25, the third anniversary of the largest march in Washington, DC, history, the landmark March For Women’s Lives, the women’s health movement will once again send the message to elected officials that women’s health must be protected.    » read more »

Measure Will Protect Women's Private Medical Decisions From Political Interference

WASHINGTON, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the nation's leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, today applauded Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) for introducing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). FOCA would codify in federal law the protections for a woman's right to choose as outlined in Roe v. Wade.

PPFA President Cecile Richards issued the following statement on the introduction of FOCA:    » read more »

April 18, 2007 -- Washington, DC - "This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman's right to choose and recognized the importance of women's health. Today's decision blatantly defies the Court's recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account.    » read more »

April 18, 2007 -- “I am truly shocked by this decision. This is a major strike against a woman’s right to choose. And the effective elimination of the health exception in my view will put women’s lives in jeopardy.

This decision clearly demonstrates the real impact on privacy rights that has occurred through President Bush’s efforts to nominate judges whose views are out of the mainstream of American legal thought.    » read more »

April 19, 2007 -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling upholding the federal abortion ban:    » read more »

April 18, 2007 -- "The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 outlawed the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion except in limited circumstances where the procedure is necessary to protect the life of the mother. The Act represented a small but vital step in protecting the most vulnerable among us, the unborn children. The partial birth abortion—or, as clinically known, "intact dilation and evacuation"—procedure is one that no civilized society can tolerate.    » read more »

ROE v. WADE

Opinion of the United States Supreme Court
Decided January 22, 1973

MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART, concurring.    » read more »