What do Mitt Romney, flip flopping on abortion, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? You would be surprised.

"Look just tell me what I need to believe to get elected, and THAT'S what I believe!"

Courtesy of Jezebel:

Judith Dushku is a professor of history at Suffolk University, an outspoken Mormon feminist, and the mother of Dollhouse and Buffy star Eliza Dushku. She's also the founder of Exponent II, a Mormon feminist publication. In 1990, Ms. Dushku's magazine published the story of an anonymous 41 year old woman who experienced a life-threatening blood clot while she was pregnant for the sixth time. The woman was told by doctors that treatment of the clot would threaten the pregnancy, and so an abortion was necessary. The Mormon faith officially opposes abortion except in extreme cases, and women who are members of the church and seek an abortion are required to petition church elders for permission. She and her husband petitioned the Church to authorize them to receive the procedure, and a church elder told her and her husband that the procedure looked like unfortunate but unavoidable. 

On the day of the abortion, the couple showed up at the hospital only to be greeted by their bishop, who had shown up, unannounced, to try to prevent her from going through with it, regardless of the fact that a church official with a higher rank than his had already given the okay. The bishop was determined to make his case against the life-saving surgery, and he was a total dick about it. According to a 2007 interview with Dushku, the following exchange occurred, 

He said – What do you think you're doing? 

She said – Well, we have to abort the baby because I have these blood clots. 

And he said something to the effect of – Well, why do you get off easy when other women have their babies? 

And she said – What are you talking about? This is a life threatening situation. 

And he said – Well what about the life of the baby? 

And she said – I have four other children and I think it would be really irresponsible to continue the pregnancy. 

The bishop who tried to block that selfish, selfish clotted up woman from saving her own life with a legal medical procedure was one Mitt Romney. The woman he attempted to block did go through with her abortion and lived to see her four teenage children grow up. Her family later left the church. 

When the Exponent II story was originally published, both the identity of the woman and the identity of the bishop were concealed. 

Several years later, Dushku was pleasantly surprised to read that Romney was running for Senate as a pro-choice candidate, and even thought she could lend her support to Romney and his newfound pro-woman political stance. When she visited his office, he told her that he only supported a pro-choice agenda because church elders in Provo had told him that it was the only way he'd win the seat in the liberal state. 

Dushku expressed her dismay at Romney's position of convenience, and he replied that he was totally fine with being pro choice for the sake of a campaign, as he had an aunt who died of a botched abortion. The two parted ways unsatisfied, and shortly thereafter Dushku revealed that Romney was the anti-choice bishop who had blocked the anonymous woman from having an abortion more than a decade before. The two friends had a falling out and stopped speaking. 

She attempted to restore the friendship after Romney lost to Senator Ted Kennedy, but Romney rebuked her in the butthurtiest way possible, telling Dushku that he never wanted to speak to her again. She says, 

He said I'm so angry at you. I don't ever want to talk about this again. And I don't want to talk to you. 

And I said, I'm sorry about that Mitt because I thought we could have our political differences and remain at least cordial. 

He said – No. That's not possible. 

Some fans of Romney believe that he's long ago left behind his 1970's zealot ways. But Judith Dushku isn't convinced, and neither are we.

Rarely does a story come along that is so chock full of bizarre coincidences, stunning revelations, and potentially damaging information for a politician, yet here we are.

So what we learn here is that Mitt Romney was once such a pro-life zealot that he attempted to convince a woman to sacrifice her life, and deprive her four children of their mother, all to ensure the birth of a baby who would forever know that they had been the cause of their mother's death. Seriously?

Attempting to shame this woman after the church had already given her permission to make this extraordinarily difficult choice, is unconscionable. (And I have to wonder, what did the LDS church think of Romney's interference?)

And then we learn that despite the fact that Romney seemed to feel no compunction about asking a woman to give up her life in support of his pro-life beliefs, that he HIMSELF was willing to cast them aside for the opportunity to win a seat in the Senate. Which means that either Mitt was NEVER that sold on the whole pro-life thing, or that he is a fucking liar!

And if that isn't enough, we also learn that Romney is a pissy spoiled brat who seemingly holds a grudge forever.

Personally I find it VERY appropriate that the two front runners in the GOP race for President, are two lying pieces of shit. I have to say that after reading this, my opinion of Romney is even lower than it was before, and THAT is really saying something!

I think I will make myself feel better by putting up a picture of Eliza "Faith" Dushku, of whom I am a big fan.

There that's better. And BTW who knew she has such an interesting mom?