Romney's abortion comments leave campaign scrambling to unify ticket [View all]
Source: Guardian UK
Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan were scrambling on Wednesday to present a coherent position on abortion amid accusations from Democrats that the Republican presidential candidate had hidden his true beliefs in an attempt to appeal to moderate voters.
In the wake of a Romney interview with the Des Moines Register newspaper in which he said his agenda included no legislation to restrict abortion, his campaign team launched a damage limitation exercise to assure conservative voters that he remained staunchly pro-life.
Within hours of the comments being published on Tuesday, Romney's campaign insisted that he was against abortion, telling the conservative National Review Online that Romney "would, of course, support legislation aimed at providing greater protections for life.
"Mitt Romney is proudly pro-life, and he will be a pro-life president," said his spokeswoman Andrea Saul in a statement.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/10/romney-abortion-comments-ryan-differences
Amazing. Ryan is smacking down Romney on his efforts to recant on his prior anti-abortion comments.
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