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Romney was born in 1947. Romney only recently became pro-life.

So? Ronald Reagan was a democrat for how many decades? It's not the number of years one is fighting on our side that is important -- it is the quality of the commitment.

Some of the most committed and passionate activists I know are the most recent ones.

Also, conservatism does not rise and fall on just one issue alone. Romney has been a conservative on a majority of issues his whole life.

Don't forget, Democrat Ronald Reagan voted for FDR for President four times, and campaigned for Harry Truman. He remained a Democrat until he switched his registration in 1962. He lived 5 decades as a Democrat.

Don't forget, too, that Ronald Reagan said he had no opinion on abortion one way or another when he became governor. He was 56 years old. Hadn't really thought about it too much .

From the book, Reagan In His Own Hand: 1975 Reagan radio address:

“Eight years ago when I became Gov. I found myself involved almost immediately in a controversy over abortion. It was a subject I’d never given much thought to and one upon which I didn’t really have an opinion.

And just a few years later he was staunchly pro-life, leading the conservative revolution and becoming one of our most loved and respected presidents. People change. And good. Imagine if people like those unfairly trashing Romney today had rejected Reagan back then too.

----->>Think about it. This is Ronald Reagan quoted above --- in his late 60's -- writing that he hadn't formed an opinion one way or another on abortion eight years earlier UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION ON IT WHEN IN OFFICE - when the issue of life was squarely placed before him ----> then it mattered.

That sounds VERY much like what happened to Romney.

Governor Romney: "Times of decision are moments of great clarity. Before I was Governor, the life issue was just that, an issue. But when responsibility for life or ending life was placed in my hands, I made the right decision. I chose life." (Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks At The National Right To Life Convention Forum, June 15, 2007)

That is not the full Reagan quote. You purposely pulled it out of context. Here's the full statement from Reagan's April 1975 radio address:

"Eight years ago when I became Gov. I found myself involved almost immediately in a controversy over abortion. It was a subject I'd never given much thought to and one upon which I didn't really have an opinion."

"I did more studying & soul searching then on any thing that was to face me as Gov".

"I know there will be disagreement with this view but I can find no evidence whatsoever that a fetus is not a living human being with human rights."

Reagan was firmly in the prolife camp and adamantly opposed to most abortions by 1968. The 1967 Therapeutic Abortion Act that Reagan signed into law did not grant abortions on demand. It was specific to the exceptions of substantial risk that would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the woman, along with rape and incest. It was advertised as a compassionate law that would be used to deal with the diffcult abortion cases. By the way, that law was overturned in 1972 by the California Supreme Court.

More than likely you pulled that Reagan remark from one of my posts. Otherwise, tell us what page it's from?

Reagan was never pro-choice and at no time did he favor abortion on demand, personally or as a matter of public policy. He reluctantly signed a bill that relaxed an outright ban on abortions. He said he signed it out of sympathy for the victims of rape, incest and for those women who may be facing serious health risks. Reagan did not sign it out of political expediency and it didn't take Reagan 30 years to become pro-life.

Mitt Romney has a record of 30+ years in support of abortion on demand and Roe V Wade. Stop lying!

Don't forget, too, that Ronald Reagan said he had no opinion on abortion one way or another when he became governor. He was 56 years old.
----->>Think about it. This is Ronald Reagan quoted above --- in his late 60's -- writing that he hadn't formed an opinion one way or another on abortion eight years earlier UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION ON IT WHEN IN OFFICE - when the issue of life was squarely placed before him ----> then it mattered.

That sounds VERY much like what happened to Romney.

If Rommey had been living in a cave the last thirty years the comparison might make sense. Comparing Rommey on abortion in 2005 with Reagan on abortion in 1968 as if the thirty plus years abortion war had never happened is not a comparison that is connected to reality. Even back then, Reagan did not disassemble on the subject or his history concerning it with convoluted, contradictory and tortured equivocations the way Rommey is doing right now, million upon millions of slaughtered human beings later.

Cordially,

Don't forget, too, that Ronald Reagan said he had no opinion on abortion one way or another when he became governor. He was 56 years old. Hadn't really thought about it too much .

He would be called a RINO and blasted on FR today.