I am not sure how any pro-life person could vote for Mitt Romney for President. While these days he is pretending to be a conservative candidate his record and words speak for themselves.

Here is what Mitt Romney said in 2002 while running for Governor:

But what he said was not exactly true to his position. He didn’t keep the laws the same- he made them even more pro-abortion. Included as a part of Romneycare was $50 taxpayer subsidized abortions. According to the National Catholic Reporter:

The Massachusetts health care reform established a government funded program, Commonwealth Care, that includes coverage of abortion. Commonwealth Care was made available for free to everyone in the Bay State who was below the poverty line and subsidized participation was made available to those above the poverty line.

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Additionally, the Massachusetts health care reform law requires that one of the members on a newly created “MassHealth payment policy advisory board” be appointed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts. The relevant section of the law reads: “SECTION 3. Chapter 6A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 16I the following 6 sections: . . . Section 16M. (a) There shall be a MassHealth payment policy advisory board. The board shall consist of the secretary of health and human services or his designee, who shall serve as chair, the commissioner of health care financing and policy, and 12 other members: … 1 member appointed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts …”

The State website even lists abortion services in plain language on the Romneycare website.

According to Pro-Life Profiles:

As George W. Bush assistant Mary Matalin stated on Deace in the Morning on Des Moines’s WHO 1040 AM, “In Mitt Romney’s health care plan that he is applauding you can get an abortion for $50.”

According to Renaissance Women:

Mitt Romney signed in to law $50.00 taxpayer subsidized co-pay abortions as a part of a healthcare benefit under his signature accomplishment, Romneycare. Thus, if you are against abortion and you are in the state of Massachusetts, you are funding it because there are no exceptions.

Lets also take a look at Mitt Romney’s own words on the issue:

“Romney supports a federal health care plan option that includes abortion services, would vote for a law codifying the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion and backs federal funding for abortions as long as states can decide if they want the money, [a spokesman] said.” (Ed Hayward, “Anti-Abortion Group Endorses Romney Bid,” Boston Herald, 9/8/94)

“When I Am Asked If Am I Pro-Choice Or Pro-Life, I Say I Refuse To Accept Either Label.” (Glen Warchol, “This Is The Place, But Politics May Lead Romneys Elsewhere,” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2/14/99)

“[Massachusetts Citizens for Life] considers Romney to be an abortion-rights supporter, as do national antiabortion groups such as the Family Research Council. … [Romney aide Eric] Fehrnstrom said the governor’s position has not changed on either sex education or abortion.” (Scott S. Greenberger, “Roe V. Wade Omitted From Proclamation,” The Boston Globe, 3/25/05)

Even since his supposed “pro-life” conversion Romney signed legislation making it easier to get them.

In 2005 Governor Romney “issued an executive order on December 8, 2005, against the legal opinion of his own State Department of Public Health, instructing all Catholic hospitals and others to provide chemical abortifacient Plan B to rape victims.

And after passage of Romneycare he even went as far to mandate that Catholic Hospitals administer abortions for rape victims.

We all know how Mitt Romney likes to say one thing and do another, flip and flop and the like (see: gay marriage, abortion, holding public sector unions accountable, being conservative, being Republican, etc.) so it should come as little surprise to no one that just days after he authors an op-ed calling out President Obama on the Solyndra scandal it is learned that he too is fundraising with one of their lobbyists, oh and had a program just like the Presidents while Governor.

In his oped Romney said many of the right things, he wrote:

First, the U.S. government shouldn’t be playing venture capitalist. It’s not merely that government bureaucrats are bad at picking winners. The very process invites cronyism and outright corruption.

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Having worked and created jobs in the real economy, I understand the policies we must pursue to make the United States the best place in the world to do business. It is these policies, not President Obama’s handouts to politically connected investors with politically correct business ideas, that will produce a genuine economic recovery.

But then we learn today via Politico:

But Romney is a private-sector venture capitalist by vocation, and during his tenure as Massachusetts Governor he set up a program almost exactly like the ones he’s now denouncing.

In 2003, Romney launched the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a $15 million project aimed at providing “an opportunity to capitalize on two emerging trends: the growing level of investment interest in clean energy and the importance of Massachusetts’ academic and corporate R&D in forming clean energy technology companies,” according to its website.

At the time, Romney called the fund a “springboard for the commonwealth by focusing on job creation in the renewable energy sector.”

And in fact a number of these companies did not succeed:

Of the six companies listed in the fund’s portfolio, three are either struggling or have shut down completely.

So would Mitt Romney act like the Mitt Romney in the Orange Country Register or the Mitt Romney who served as Governor of Massachusetts?

Hint: Mitt Romney Fundraising With A Solyndra Lobbyist

Since getting into the race for President we have heard a lot of sniping from establishment Washington and Wall Street types about how Rick Perry was just too conservative, or not enough like them to get elected President. We heard from Karl Rove that Perry wasn’t moderate enough and from Jon Huntsman that we didn’t believe in global warming enough. As conservatives we should remember that sometimes a person should be judged not just by their friends but by their enemies.  We learn today that Rick Perry is the trial lawyers worst nightmare.

America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred — and fear — as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.

Why do the trial lawyers and uber trial lawyer Steve Mostyn really hate Perry?

The governor has pushed through a string of tort reform laws, including a 2003 measure putting a monetary cap on non-economic damage awards. He passed another law in the most recent Texas legislative session, making it easier to dismiss some lawsuits and putting plaintiffs on the hook for legal costs in certain cases that are defeated or dismissed.

Democratic Houston trial lawyer Steve Mostyn — who, along with his wife, Amber, donated nearly $9 million to Texas candidates and party committees in the 2010 cycle — said he’s in the process of forming “some federal PACs” to take on Perry. That will likely include a federal super PAC that could take in the kind of massive donations that are permitted in Texas.

Richard Fisher, the Democrat who is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas offers a “fact from fiction” analysis of the Texas jobs record. Fisher says the Texas jobs record is indisputable and due to pro-growth policies.

Read his entire speech here.

Texas Job Growth is Indisputable: “These are the facts. You may select whichever metric you wish. Regardless, it is reasonable to assume Texas has accounted for a significant amount of the nation’s employment growth both over the past 20 years and since the recession officially ended.”

Most new jobs are unrelated to the oil and gas sector: “The most jobs have been created in the educational and health services sector, which accounts for 13.5 percent of Texas’ employment. The second-most jobs have been created in the professional and business services sector, which accounts for 12.5 percent of the Texas workforce. The mining sector, which includes support activities for both mining and oil and gas, employs 2.1 percent (yes, two-point-one percent) of Texas’ workers.”

Most New Jobs Pay Good Wages: “…these jobs are not low-paying jobs. The average weekly wage in the education and health services sector is $790; in the professional and business services sector it is $1,117; and in the mining sector, the average weekly wage is $2,271. Together these three sectors account for 68 percent of the jobs that have been created in Texas in the past two years.”

Texas job gains are a result of pro-growth policies on taxes, spending and regulations: “…people and businesses have been picking up stakes and moving to Texas in significant numbers over a prolonged period… And yet Texas, like all states, is subject to the same monetary policy as all the rest… From this, I draw the conclusion that private sector capital and jobs will go to where taxes and spending and regulatory policy are most conducive to growth.”

To create jobs, Washington must address taxes, spending and regulations: “The Committee of 12 and the president have an awesome task. Essentially, they must reboot our entire system of economic incentives and come forward with an updated tax and spending and regulatory regime that incentivizes businesses to invest in the United States and create jobs for American workers rather than gravitate to foreign shores.”

The Dallas Fed will provide ongoing updates to counteract inaccurate information: “The Dallas Fed will henceforth be providing monthly updates on employment in Texas through our website at www.dallasfed.org. We hope it will be a useful tool for everyone ranging from columnists who write for the New York Times to the pundits who provide commentary for Fox News, as well as serious economists.”