Romney’s Past Abortion Views Resurface
June 13, 2007, 6:34pm
Mitt Romney has changed his policy stance on abortion over the years, and his past views, captured on video, continue to haunt him now that he is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
The Caucus said the latest was circulated today by the rival campaign of Arizona Sen. John McCain, and the clip is fairly recent — from 2005. It features Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts, reiterating his commitment to maintaining abortion rights in the state.
UPDATE: The Romney campaign has released another longer version of the video in question to counter what an aide called “the McCain’s campaign’s desperate, distorting attack” on Romney’s record.
Campaign spokesman Kevin Madden also issued this statment:
Governor Romney consistently maintained, in an effort to protect the sanctity of life, that he would fight attempts to weaken the state’s existing abortion laws. Maintaining existing laws in a state like Massachusetts was an important fight in and of itself. It’s very troubling that the McCain campaign would attack the governor’s pro-life stance by trying to alter the context of a statement made at a news conference where he also made a passionate case for his veto of stem cell legislation that showed a level of disregard for the sanctity of human life.
Categories: Arizona, Sen. John McCain, Presidency 2008, Mitt Romney, Abortion, John McCain
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