Did you know that old moderate Mitt wants to enable adoption of "snowflake babies"?

Mitt wants to enable adoption of snowflake babies

by digby

Chris Hayes featured a great conversation this morning on "women's issues." I thought the exchange between Father Bill Daley and Rebecca Traister was particularly interesting in that Traistor had to explain to the priest how central are reproductive rights --- he seemed to think that some other health care benefits (like free insulin for mothers with diabetic children) would be just as helpful to women as birth control. That difference of perspective is profound.

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I am with Hayes on this idea of a litmus test. There a few enough differences between the two parties. But I think we can be assured of one thing: the Republican Party no longer has any room for the pro-choice position. Actually, it's worse than that. They have done something quite diabolical: according to Mitt Romney's new ad, pro-choice women should be reassured that Mitt isn't really a patriarchal throwback because of his generous position that abortion should be allowed in case of rape, incest or the life of the mother. As if that's the pro-choice position. The truth is that this modern Republican Party is determined to appoint judges to overturn Roe vs Wade and will restrict women's rights wherever it is possible to do so. This is what Romney said to reassure his party that he was one of them back in 2008 and I have zero reasons to believe that he or his party have moderated since then. The list of ways in which he will restrict women's reproductive rights is quite impressive:

It's true that Democrats have not been the stalwart defenders --- and expanders --- of women's rights that we need. But they're Gloria Steinham's fondest dream compared to that list of atrocities Mitt proudly articulates. He wanted to create adoption for blastocysts. You just don't get any more fanatical than that.

As Hayes said, we all vote on variety of issues. But if this one is up there on your list of priorities, there's really no choice. Sadly, I'm not sure most people are aware of that after all the blurring of lines the Democrats have stupidly done in the past and Mitt Romney's doing in the present. But that doesn't change the fact that the two parties do fundamentally differ here.

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