Obama: Romney Wouldn’t ‘Stand In The Way’ Of Push To Ban All Abortion

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President Obama told the AP Mitt Romney will sign language like the GOP platform plank on abortion — which includes no mention of exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother — into law if he gets the chance as president.

“I don’t think that if Congress presented him with some of the items that are in the Republican platform at this convention that would, for example, entirely roll back women’s control over their reproductive health, that he would stand in the way,” Obama told the AP in an interview posted Sunday. — Evan McMorris-Santoro

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