“But what was it Regan didn’t understand in 1967. Did he know how babies were conceived, gestated and born?”
You have made a couple of posts which seem to indicate that you are young, that is one of them. I remember that bill, and like Reagan I thought that it was for the life of the mother.
By 1968 Reagan had made public what a mistake he had made.
What does any of this have to with a man that is older than me, the 60 year old sometimes abortion counselor Bishop Mitt Romney.
How is it that the he didn’t change his mind about the bill in 1968 like Reagan, why did he never change, decade after decade, election after election, Reagan came and went and was replaced by the 1994 Gingrich revolution, the 90s, Bush vs Gore, nothing affected Romney until the beginnings of this present campaign.
During the later of those years Romney was one of the most passionate, eloquent defenders of the pro abortion position in the nation from either party (we have video of his sincerity and passion).
Time and history and movements had no effect on the man.
But he wasn't perfect and made mistakes, which btw, Reagan himself acknowledged. One of them, was the bill he passed in CA, permitting abortions in limited circumstances, which helped paved the way for Roe vs. Wade, something Reagan also admitted. While it is true that Reagan never supported abortion on demand, it is also true that he changed his opinion on abortion.
While it is true that Romney did support abortion on demand, it is also true that he never passed a bill which expanded a right to abortion. Quite the contrary. He passed several bills intended to narrow the scope.