The Mitt Romney Code

Mitt Romney stood atop his soapbox yesterday and shouted "States' rights!" over and over again. And as you can see from a recent interview with a Nevada television station, the ceding of power from Federal to local control would seem to extend, in Romney's mind, to the topic of abortion.

So then how do we square this idea with his other recent statements that there should be an amendment to the constitution banning the practice of abortion? If he views abortion as murder, then clearly states like Nevada or New York or California should not be allowed to practice the procedure. Pregnancies caused by rape? Incest? Why make exceptions for them? After all, or so the thinking goes, doesn't a second crime simply compound the first? Moreover, how does Romney reconcile the seeming discrepancy between the States' Rights view and his proposed Federal ban on abortion? From today's Washington Post:
Top Romney advisers insisted yesterday that their candidate's statements on abortion this month were consistent with each other. They say Romney supports a two-step process in which states get authority over abortion after Roe v. Wade is overturned, followed eventually by a constitutional amendment that bans most abortions.
So there you have it. Romney's for Big Government, after all. That States' Rights talk is all a smokescreen. He's dead set on a national dictate that makes it illegal for teenage girls who get pregnant to do anything other than carry the child to term. What else would Romney like to make illegal for the citizens of the United States? How about birth control? Never mind that abstinence only education has been shown to be a farce. The Baltimore Sun recently ran an article detailing Mitt's distinction between egg fertilization and implantation:
Mr. Romney's code, deciphered, meant, "I, like you, hope to reclassify the most commonly used forms of contraceptives as abortions." In fact, he told the crowd, he already had some practice redefining contraception: "I vetoed a so-called emergency contraception bill that cave young girls abortive drugs without prescription or parental consent."
You see, Dr. Romney believes he knows more about physiology than The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who define life starting at the implantation of a fertilized egg into the mother's womb. After all, if the egg does not implant, the fetus has no possible viability. Whatever your beliefs on abortion, there's simply no denying that Romney has no business spouting off about States' Rights when it comes to this issue.

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