Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Romney's Bain Days: Profits from Abortion?

Image from Mother Jones
I'm very curious whether right-wing anti-abortion voters will make excuses for this? Or will they just choose to ignore it, because they so despise President Obama?

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Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show


Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion. . .

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