{"id":7647,"date":"2011-08-09T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:31:33","slug":"he-was-a-hypocrite-before-he-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/08\/09\/he-was-a-hypocrite-before-he-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was A Hypocrite Before He Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Mitt Romney&#8217;s hypocrisy on health care and abortion is also incredibly personal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/08\/08\/mitt_romney_abortion_ann_keenan\/index.html\">As reported by Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a 1994 Senate debate with Ted Kennedy, Mitt Romney revealed a startling chapter from his past:  A close relative had died many years earlier in a botched illegal abortion, shaping Romney&#8217;s stance in favor of safe and legal access to abortion for all women&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The relative he was referring to back in &#8217;94, Salon has learned, was a Detroit woman named Ann Keenan. She was the sister of Romney&#8217;s brother-in-law and died at the age of 21 in 1963, a full decade before Roe v. Wade. While much of what happened remains murky, an investigation by Salon has uncovered never-reported details about her life and death, including: how she died (an infection); that her grief-stricken parents asked for memorial donations to be made to Planned Parenthood; and that the family apparently wanted to keep the death quiet because Romney&#8217;s politically ambitious father, George, was then governor of Michigan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Mitt Romney&#8217;s hypocrisy on health care and abortion is also incredibly personal. 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