Your post is inacurate that quote was from 1994!!
Legality of abortion
In a 1994 debate with Senator Ted Kennedy, Romney said: “One of the great things about our nation ... is that we’re each entitled to have strong personal beliefs, and we encourage other people to do the same. But as a nation, we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice, and my personal beliefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign.”[201][202][203]
During the 2002 governor’s race, Romney’s platform stated, “As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current pro-choice status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change.”[204] The executive director of Massachusetts NARAL at the time, Melissa Kogut, stated that in her organization’s endorsement interview with Romney, he was “emphatic that the Republican Party was not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice.”[205][206]
The Boston Globe on July 26, 2005 quoted Romney saying, “I am pro-life. I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother. I wish the people of America agreed, and that the laws of our nation could reflect that view. But while the nation remains so divided over abortion, I believe that the states, through the democratic process, should determine their own abortion laws and not have them dictated by judicial mandate.”[207] At the May 2007 Republican Presidential debate in South Carolina, Romney stated that “Roe v. Wade has gone to such an extent that we’ve cheapened the value of human life.” He followed by saying “the people should make [the abortion] decision, not the court.”[192] Romney’s spokesperson has indicated that had Romney been the governor of South Dakota, he would have signed into law the controversial law banning abortion, but he would include exceptions for cases of incest or rape, which the South Dakota law excludes.[208]
In statements since leaving the governorship, Romney has expressed his opposition to “partial birth” abortion.[19][209][210]
In 2011, Romney declined to sign a pro-life pledge sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony List to support legislation to end all taxpayer funding of abortion and to sign a law to “protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.” The pledge also commits signers to nominate judges and appoint executive branch officials who are pro-life. Romney’s spokeswoman said the pledge could have “unforeseen consequences” and that Romney could not “in good conscience sign it.” Romney did not hesitate to explain his stance: “It is one thing to end federal funding for an organization like Planned Parenthood; it is entirely another to end all federal funding for thousands of hospitals across America,” he wrote. “That is precisely what the pledge would demand and require of a president who signed it.” [211]
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Romney promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would help overturn Roe v. Wade, allowing states to individually decide on the legality of abortion.[212] Furthermore, he would nominate judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the law.[213]
[edit] Personhood legislation
Romney has expressed support for constitutional amendments at both the state and federal level guaranteeing constitutional protections to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Romney said that if elected president, he would support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would legally define personhood as beginning at conception.[214] In the 2012 presidential campaign, he said that, had he as governor been presented with a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, he would have supported it.[215]
[edit] Embryonic stem-cell research & human cloning
When he ran for governor in 2002, Romney strongly advocated stem-cell research, and he promised to lobby then-President George W. Bush to embrace it.[216] During Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign, he renounced his prior position and said that he agreed with Bush’s decision to ban federal funding for research on excess embryos.[216] He said that his views had been drastically altered in 2004 after discussing stem cell research with Douglas Melton, a stem cell researcher at Harvard University. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute was planning research that would have involved therapeutic cloning.[217][218] According to Romney, Melton declared that the research “is not a moral issue because we kill the embryos at 14 days.” “I looked over at Beth Myers, my chief of staff, and we both had exactly the same reaction, which is it just hit us hard,” recalled Romney. “And as they walked out, I said, ‘Beth, we have cheapened the sanctity of life by virtue of the Roe v. Wade mentality.’”[218][219]
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Romney opposed research using cloned embryos created by implanting human DNA into donated eggs.[216][chronology
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No it wasn't. It was from last Monday.
We have in Romney a man of compromise, not a man of principle. He is a politician, not a statesman. He does not carefully think through the morality of a matter. Rather, he carefully considers its political consequences. He is easily swayed and always seeks the most acceptable position. As a national figure he is at best transitional between tyranny and constitutional government.