YES - he IS Pro-Life!!

It is regrettable that so many folks buy into the media soundbytes that say Governor Romney flip flopped. He did not. The Governor is not a life long politician and his positions developed as he was called on to make decisions in Massachusetts. The Life issue is clearly explained. Mitt Romney stated that his views were effectively pro-choice, having never voted on or making decisions in regard to Life. But as Governor, he closely examined issues that effected human life and his position evolved. As Governor, he took the side of Life on every issue that came before him . That IS his record.

Check out this article at HumanEvents.com :

Governor Romney’s Genuine Conversion
by Rep. Peter Hoekstra | 05/11/2007

In all my years in the pro-life movement, I have always believed that our goal was not only to change laws, but to change minds — and we have changed many minds. Ronald Reagan, Henry Hyde, and countless others who at one point supported abortion rights later came to understand that human life at its very beginning moments must be protected.

We take pride in the work of these individuals, because in their changes of heart, they proved that the mission of the pro-life community is not only sacred, but it is also capable of winning new adherents and allies.

I can think of no better example of this change of heart than Governor Mitt Romney. He has traveled down a path of discovery, and explored the philosophical and scientific basis for the pro-life position. Now, he counts himself among the millions of Americans who oppose abortion on demand and scientific experimentation with human embryos.

I have watched Governor Romney’s journey, and I believe he is sincere in his change of heart. But you don’t have to trust me on that count; you merely have to look at what Governor Romney said and did on life issues when it counted:

In 2002, during his campaign for governor, he supported Massachusetts’ parental notification laws for minor girls seeking abortions; his opponent opposed such notification laws. Thankfully, he won and those parental notification laws remain on Massachusetts’ books.

In 2005, Governor Romney vetoed a bill that would have expanded stem cell experiments involving the cloning of human embryos – a practice he called morally wrong. At the time, Romney spoke movingly of the moral issues at work: “It is wrong to allow science to take an assembly line approach to the production of human embryos,” he wrote in a letter explaining his veto.

That same year, he vetoed legislation that would have allowed the “morning after pill” to be purchased without a prescription. He also vetoed legislation that would have redefined a human life as an implanted embryo, rather than a fertilized embryo. The legislation would have allowed scientists to experiment freely on fertilized embryos before destroying them — treating the fertilized embryo as nothing more than what some scientists call a “clump of cells.”

In 2006, he announced that the state would sponsor abstinence education programs in its middle schools, the first time Massachusetts agreed to spend federal abstinence education funds on in-school programs.

Read the entire article here.

Now who said that Mitt couldn’t get the support of the South? In the past days he has proven he is a leader in all parts of the country!!

Romney gains S.C. backers for campaign
By Bruce Smith   |  Posted on Tue, Jan. 30, 2007
The Associated Press

MOUNT PLEASANT - On a cold winter day that made it seem more like New Hampshire than South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney picked up three key endorsements Monday in the state with the first Southern presidential primary.

Romney, traveling with Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, spoke at a civic club meeting in Aiken before arriving in this Charleston suburb.

He was endorsed by former Gov. Jim Edwards, the first Republican elected governor in South Carolina since Reconstruction, former U.S. Rep. Tommy Hartnett and Republican National Committeewoman Cindy Costa.

“This is a remarkable group of people, and their support means the world to me,” said Romney, standing near a dock where a shrimp boat was tied.

Later, Romney was asked again about his views on abortion, an issue important in a staunchly conservative state.

“Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice,” he said. “I never called myself that as a label but I was effectively pro-choice and that followed a personal experience in my extended family that led to that conclusion.”

That family member was killed in an illegal abortion in the 1960s, Romney said.

Romney said he has given the matter much thought.

Once, during a discussion with leaders from Harvard University about stem cell research, Romney said someone commented it’s not really a moral issue because the embryos used are destroyed at 14 days.

“It struck me very powerfully at that point that the Roe v. Wade approach has so cheapened the value of human life that somebody could think it’s not a moral issue to destroy embryos,” Romney said.

He added every decision he made as governor “in a very liberal state has been on the side of favoring life,” he said. “I am firmly pro-life.”