Monday, February 05, 2007

Romney & Abortion   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The latest he’s-not-really-pro-life thread focuses on Romney’s health-care plan. The Commonwealth Care insurance policy coming out of it covers abortions. But as I understand it, as set up, it was to mirror the state Medicaid program…which covered abortions.  That’s bad, but strikes me as nothing new or surprising. We already knew that Romney ran for governor saying he wouldn’t change the abortion laws of the state. When he set up his health-care plan, a) he would have been breaking a pledge if he made it a point to make sure the plan didn’t cover abortions; b) can you imagine the whole thing passing if he did? Could he have vetoed it? As I understand it he would have lost the plan’s Quality and Cost Council with it. And he also would have then changed a state law in regard to abortion, which he said he wouldn’t…

02/05 11:05 AMShare