Romney's comments simply show that he really cares about the issue. If you want to convince people abortion si wrong and move the debate forward, you would avoid calling people murderers, obvously. To nail someobdy for trying to advocate pro life stances, becuase they refused to use rhetoric that inflames and pushes away others is shallow and lame. but all in a days work in politics. i am not suprised

brownback is very unimpressive. Where is the competence and innovation with him. He is a professional speech giver, a legislator. Nobody would vote for him in a general election. He has no shot, i wish he would drop out.

I watched the democratic debates on CNN yesterday, and I was very disappointed in the way CNN didn’t give all the candidates equal time to speak (not even close to equal time!).

The first primary is six months away, and most voters have not decided for sure whom they are going to vote for. A debate should be the ideal time for voters to hear from all the candidates so that we can decide who we think best represents our viewpoints.

CNN put Obama, Clinton and Edwards in the middle and by far gave them the most time to speak, followed by Richardson and Biden, and then by Dodd. Gravel and Kucinich were stuck at the far ends and barely got to say anything!

I realize that Obama, Clinton and Edwards are the front-runners in the poles, but does that mean the race is over? Has the media decided they are our only three real choices, or that underdogs like Gravel and Kucinich don’t matter since they’re not up in the poles? It’s way too early for that, and as a voter, I wanted to hear from all the candidates.

I was very, very disappointed in CNN. I expected CNN to run the debate fairly, with each candidate getting equal time to speak. Shame on you.

Micaela, Registered Democrat

How do you do that? Talk ONLY about abortion and gay marriage. Forget the issues, keep those hot-button conservative issues in the news, and you might just gain the nomination. Good politics, Brownback.

2- Abortion has almost NOTHING to do with the President's job. He or she may or may not appoint supreme court justices who may or may not overturn Roe v. Wade. The media's obsession with this issue is just a very effective strategy to shift focus from the REAL illues. I'd be in favor of a constitutional amendment to ban QUESTIONS about abortion and gay marriage from presidential debates.

1. Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder), and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder).

Generally abortion is not a malicious act, but a fearful one.

Then their abortion is murder. They are seeking to mitigate consequences that should require them to be responsible and has economic burdens. They had their choice. It's twisted that their fight against their choice, by trying to erase their consequences, is referred to as "free choice."

But take a victim of incest, rape, or one in which the mother's life is in serous peril due to pregnancy. Then abortion is a choice that I still don't agree with, but don't condemn those who choose it under those circumstances.

Brownback should apologize to all those who faced those difficult choices and have now been demonized. Although I would tell my wife or daughters to keep the baby, I'm not so hypocritical to blanket everyone with my personal morality and demonize those who may have choosen a poor descision under circumstances that I've never had to endure.

I don't want a black and white president who can't step out of his own moral values to allow others to choose for themselves in some atypical circumstances.

They both have their place, but I'd like someone to govern the country who has governed a state.

I hate abortion. But you can't be a leader of a democracy and disallow a country to vote. Everyone except Rudy is clear on being against abortion. If we want to reform, allow, or eliminate abortion that should be done according to the law. Rogue reps insisting that we all call it murder is just stupid. I personally agree that it is murder, but I don't force others to use the same language, already associated with the worst form of crime one can be a part of in the US.

If Brownback wants to slam someone on abortion, there is a bigger and easier target than Romney!

Let us remember the definition of "liberal": Generous, open minded, tolerant of others' views, and favoring progress. (vs. "conservative": Resist or oppose changes, cautious, safe, preserve traditions.)

But it is not exactly the same as MURDER. Romney does not use the same judgemental code words that the some are so comfortable hurling. If our goal is to truly convince women to make other choices and save the babies then pointing fingers and calling people murders is just not productive. Sensitivity to the plight of those facing that choice is called for.

There is no way anyone is convinced or our society can be changed by the "MURDERER" retoric.