You seem to be confusing Fred Thompson with Mitt Romney. Fred had a perfect pro-life record back in his Seanate term.
No, Fred is the guy who called the Republican party’s prolife platform a problem. I don’t know what Romney has said about it.
Did Fred initiate any prolife legislation while he was in the Senate?
He was a senator from a nominally prolife state, and there are some “prolife” votes, I am told, but if he was prolife, why didn’t he do something about abortion and euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research?
He seemed to vote to get along on most things, but the areas where he took initiatives are things like Campaign Finance Reform.
Look, I’ll say it again: I pray he is prolife, and I pray he will follow through on his current promises, but I am not sold.
Fred Thompson
MR. RUSSERT: This is the 2004 Republican Party platform. [Reads excerpt.] Could you run as a candidate on that platform, promising a human life amendment banning all abortions?
MR. THOMPSON: No.
MR. RUSSERT: You would not?
MR. THOMPSON: No. . . . I think the diversity we have among the states, the system of federalism we have where power is divided between the state and the federal government serves us very well. I think that’s true of abortion.
Meet the Press with Tim Russert, Nov. 4, 2007
The Reagan GOP pro-life platform:
"We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children."