Let's leave the candidates' religious affiliations out of this and have a grown up conversation about healthcare.
The fact that Romney wants to completely defund Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that only 2% of its operating budget goes toward providing abortions, tells me that his decisions are based on pure party ideology rather than pragmatic objectivity. Many lower income women depend on PP's family planning and STD screening services, and with the most pregnant teens in the Western world, now is not the time to defund Planned Parenthood. Obama certainly isn't perfect, but is Romney really presidential? I just get the feeling that he is reading from a script, saying what the Republican National Committee tells him to. At least with Obama I know he stands for something, like it or not.
Does anyone else remember the intense healthcare debates 2 summers ago? If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed (As Romney has vowed to do), we are back to square one, with insurance premiums skyrocketing with little oversight, and people being dropped for preexisting conditions. If a person loses her insurance coverage because she gets sick, what is the point of buying it in the first place? Like him or not, Bill Clinton's administration was one of the most successful in modern times, but even he couldn't pass healthcare reform, and if we repeal it now, who knows how long it will be until our do-nothing Congress can pass another healthcare overhaul. Our best path forward as a nation is to build on the strong parts of Obamacare (PPACA) and continue reforming the parts that don't work, maybe even the individual mandate. No one can truly predict the effect of reforming 15% of the GDP of the world's largest economy, it is going to take some time and some trial and error before we get it right. I'm certainly not as thrilled about voting for Obama as I was in 2008, but compared to the alternative, how can you not?