Obama campaign ad: ‘Seen’

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Obama campaign responds to Mitt Romney's flat-out lie
in his new ad that he has never supported banning all abortions with a new ad
entitled "Seen," which includes video of Mittens Romney saying he would be "delighted to sign" a
bill outlawing all abortion. Romney acts like he has never heard of those newfangled inventions like sound recordings and moving picture film and the "tee-vee" and the Internet. Description:

Voiceover:
"Seen this from Mitt Romney? Then take a look at this:"

Anderson Cooper:
"If
Roe v. Wade was overturned, Congress passed a federal ban on all
abortions, and it came to your desk — would you sign it? 'Yes', or
'no?'"

Mitt Romney:
"Let me say it: I'd be delighted to sign that bill."

Voiceover:
"Banning all abortions?"

Mitt Romney:
"I'd be delighted to sign that bill."

Voiceover:
"Trying to mislead us? That's wrong. But ban all abortions? Only…if you vote for him."

Video below the fold.

The media villager myth "Moderate Mitt" is also lying about his support for the Blunt Amendment, which would have allowed employers to decide contraception coverage in health care insurance plans for their employees. Why No One Should Believe The New Ad Claiming ‘Romney Doesn’t Oppose Contraception At All’:

[A] new advertisement for Mitt Romney popped up online unannounced,
claiming that “Romney doesn’t oppose contraception at all. In fact, he
thinks abortion should be an option in cases of rape, incest, or to save
a mother’s life.”

The new ad is an overt attempt to frame the candidate as a moderate on women’s issues, as the Romney campaign has been attempting to do
for the past week. But it covers up at least five of Romney’s most
extreme positions on these issues — ones that any voter casting their
ballot this election season deserves to know:

1) Romney supported the Blunt amendment. The Blunt Amendment would allow employers to deny contraception
to their female employees because of religious objections. That means
any woman working for an employer who didn’t support contraception would
be denied the right to have her birth control costs covered. When asked
if he supported the amendment, Romney said, “Of course.”

2) Romney wants to defund Planned Parenthood. Seventy six percent of the patients
who go to Planned Parenthood are seeking affordable contraception
options. Low-income women, particularly, rely on the organization to get
family planning options that might otherwise be out of their price
range. Because the organization uses a sliding scale pay system (PDF), it allows the poorest women to get the most affordable care.

3) Romney would restore co-pays for birth control. By repealing the Affordable Care Act, Romney would get rid of the requirement
that insurance companies offer women a variety of birth control options
without a co-pay attached. That makes it harder for women to get
contraception, especially the most effective kinds, which tend to have
the highest up-front costs.

4) Romney supports a ‘personhood amendment.’ Romney once told reporters that be would “absolutely”
support a state constitutional amendment defining a fertilized egg as a
person. Had it passed, that law would have outlawed some forms of
contraception — as well as all abortions and in vitro fertilization.

5) Romney promised to reinstate the “global gag rule.”
Romney could cut off family planning services that the United States
currently offers to women abroad by using an executive order to
reinstate the “global gag rule,”
denying funding for any international organization that discusses
abortion or provides abortion referrals for their clients. In an op-ed,
he promised to do just that.