Rick Santorum

Dirt Bike Fight: Santorum Ad Mocks Huntsman Over Anti-Abortion Pledge

Jillian Rayfield | June 21, 2011, 10:09AM

A web ad Tuesday from Rick Santorum's presidential campaign mocks an ad from now official presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and attacks him for not signing a pro-life pledge from the group the Susan B. Anthony List.

Huntsman's original ad, one of several released in the run-up to his entry into the race, shows him riding a dirt bike and teases the announcement of his presidential plans as coming "in 4 days." Santorum's ad shows a dirt bike rider wiping out and says Huntsman "Hasn't signed the anti-abortion pledge. Just like Mitt Romney..."

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2012 elections

Bachmann Camp Assails Romney On Pro-Life Issues

Eric Kleefeld | June 20, 2011, 10:23AM

Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign is firing at Mitt Romney, over his refusal to sign a stringent pro-life pledge from a conservative group.

On Saturday, Romney wrote on National Review that he would not sign the pro-life pledge from the Susan B. Anthony List (which supports pro-life candidates for Congress, in something of a counter-weight EMILY's List), on the grounds that its pledge to defund all "contractors and recipients of federal funds with affiliates that perform or fund abortions" went too far, and would cut off funding to many hospitals.

"As much as I share the goals of the Susan B. Anthony List, its well-meaning pledge is overly broad and would have unintended consequences," Romney wrote. "That is why I could not sign it. It is one thing to end federal funding for an organization like Planned Parenthood; it is entirely another to end all federal funding for thousands of hospitals across America. That is precisely what the pledge would demand and require of a president who signed it."

The Bachmann campaign then pounced -- linking Romney's stance on the pledge to his original pro-choice positions -- with spokeswoman Alice Stewart saying in a statement, in part:

"It is distressing that Governor Romney refuses to sign the SBA Pledge, even while claiming to be pro-life. The excuses for not signing clearly continue the doubts about his leadership and commitment to ending the practice of abortion - particularly for a candidate who ran as pro-choice for the Senate and Governorship of Massachusetts. Any Presidential candidate seeking our party's nomination should sign the SBA Pledge and vow to protect life from conception to natural death. Governor Romney should reconsider his decision not to sign the Pledge just as he reconsidered his position on the life issue during the last campaign."

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Abortion

Anti-Abortion Group Targets Planned Parenthood With Ad Featuring Former Employee

Jon Terbush | March 28, 2011, 10:18AM

The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List is targeting Planned Parenthood with a new television ad in which a former Planned Parenthood employee claims that the organization is concerned almost exclusively with making money from abortions, and not with providing health care to needy women.

"I learned that Planned Parenthood isn't about women's health at all," the former employee, Abby Johnson, says in the video. "Their primary profit center and their entire corporate culture is about abortions."

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