[JohnnyZ]

Toomey first ran in the congressional primary in '98 as a pro-choice candidate. Since that race, he has voted 100% pro-life, I believe, and he is regarded as a sincere pro-lifer by all but those who he's currently running against.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Toomey first ran in the congressional primary in '98 as a pro-choice candidate. Since that race, he has voted 100% pro-life"

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Johnny is correct, although that he forgot to mention that Toomey had a genuine religious conversion on the issue of abortion. Regardless of what Pat Toomey may have said 6 years ago, I can think of no more reliable vote for the protection of the unborn than Pat Toomey's. He provides clear evidence of the converted making the truest believers. Arlen Specter, on the other hand, never met an abortion that he didn't like, and even tried to derail the partial-birth abortion ban by voting for a sham substitute amendment (which wouldn't have banned a single partial-birth abortion) sponsored by liberal Democrat Dick Durbin.