Mitt Romney attacks Newt Gingrich for supporting taxpayer-funded abortions

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Mitt Romney attacks Newt Gingrich for supporting taxpayer-funded abortions

by Kaili Joy Gray

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched an ad attacking Newt Gingrich for, among other things, supporting taxpayer-funded abortions.

Which is kind of a funny attack, coming from Mitt Romney, the father of Romneycare, which includes—that's right—taxpayer-funded abortions. And it's funnier still when you remember that Mitt's also the guy who said:

"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. [...] I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it and I sustain and support that law and the right of the woman to make that choice. [...] And you will not see me wavering on that."

And it gets downright comical when you recall that Newt Gingrich has a pretty strong record of opposing women's health care, going back to the days when Mitt was running around Massachusetts claiming he'd be a super-duper to-the-left-of-Ted-Kennedy radical on social issues like gay marriage and abortion.

But hey, that was then. And this is now. And now is when Mitt needs to do everything he can think of to try to knock the leading Not-Romney out of his way—even if it means inventing accusations against his competition of which he is actually guilty.

After all, he's running for president, for Pete's sake.

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I am anti-abortion, pro choice AND I support taxpayer funded abortions. If they cannot pay for an abortion them it is cheaper than paying for their children.