Sorry, but Mitt Romney's Abortion Absolutism Is Fair Game  | Fri
Oct. 19, 2012 11:48 AM EDT  In a primary debate earlier this
year, Anderson Cooper asked: "If hypothetically Roe versus Wade
was overturned, and the Congress passed a federal ban on all
abortion, and it came to your desk, would you sign it? Yes or
no?" Mitt Romney said he'd be delighted to sign such a bill, and
the Obama campaign is making hay with this in the ad on the
right. Michael Scherer thinks it's a cheap shot:  Here is the
transcript, from a Republican debate on Nov. 28, 2007:
....Romney: Let me say it. I’d be delighted to sign that bill.
But that’s not where we are. That’s not where America is today.
Where America is, is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade and return to
the states that authority. But if the Congress got there, we had
that kind of consensus in the country, terrific.  Romney
conditions his support for this hypothetical bill on an America
that does not exist, or one in which there is “such a consensus
in this country that we sa