Dear MassachusettsGOP,
"Thats total rubbish, even in 1994 he stated that he opposed government funding of abortions."
You might be right. At least once or twice. It's hard to keep track of Mr. Romney's pronounced positions on issues.
A quick look shows that at some point in 2002, he apparently backed state choice on Medicaid funding of abortion, which is not the same as backing state funding. However, his running mate in 2002 assured the public that there wasn't a "dime's worth of difference" between Mr. Romney's abortion position and the Democrat candidate's position.
Which seems to suggest significant amounts of talking out of both sides of one's mouth.
I also note that you let pass this exchange between us:
"By his 2002 Governor's race, he declared himself personally Pro-Life, but would Govern with a moratorium on changing Abortion laws as Massachusetts is 70% Pro-Choice."
That's not the whole truth.
In the 2002 gubernatorial race, he also affirmed in an answer to a Planned Parenthood questionnaire that he believed in the substance of the ruling Roe vs. Wade, that abortion is a constitutional right.
Thus, Mr. Romney, in 2002, was not pro-life by any stretch of the imagination. He still held firmly to the substance of Roe, which, with its companion piece Doe v. Bolton, pretty much requires abortion on demand throughout the 50 states.
That's not a pro-life position.
To say it is is to promote another falsehood.
I've pinged a couple of gentlemen who might be able to identify, document, and elucidate the meandering opinions of Mr. Romney on government funding of abortion.
sitetest
I am not really familiar with this this Planned Parenthood questionnaire, though I have read about it before. However, I have never heard him try to explain it, nor anybody try to explain it except in the context of an editorial trying to paint Romney as merely a slick politician. I don't know the full story behind it. It could be a contradiction that makes his position seems fishier, but I will not make a judgment on it until I have heard both sides. You may not be as slow to judge, and thats fine.
But I know for a fact, he campaigned for a Moratorium on the Change of Abortion laws as Governor, and described himself as personally Pro-Life. This wasn't even a necessarily popular opinion. Shannon O'Brien, his opponent, tried to use it against him in the Debates labeling even this very Moderate/Liberal Republican opinion as Right-wing extremism. I also know for a fact that Romney has kept his promise, he vetoed the Emergency "Contraception" bill of July 2005, and vetoed the legislature's proposed State funding for the cloning of Human embryos in May of 2005.
As for Kerry Healey, she is a certified Pro-Abortion Republican. And she has stated that she disagrees with a number of Mitt Romney's Abortion positions. She campaigned as openly Pro-Choice, Romney did not in 2002.