How Anti-Choice Are The Possible GOP Vice Presidential Picks?
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (NH) and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (MN) have been mentioned as possible vice president picks for Mitt Romney. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has campaigned as an anti-choice candidate. He endorsed an amendment that would allow employers to deny contraception coverage and promised to support radical measures to define life as beginning at conception. He would likely carry these views with him into the White House, where the president “wields more power over reproductive rights than anyone else in the country,” said Donna Crane, NARAL Pro-Choice America’s policy director. And when it comes to selecting his running mate, Romney will pick a vice presidential candidate who is just as anti-choice as he is. “The person that I would select in that position would share my views on those important issues,” Romney said at the 2011 Palmetto Freedom Forum. So how anti-choice are the most likely picks to be Romney’s vice president? NARAL Pro-Choice America broke down where...