Mitt Romney says he opposes abortion
BOSTON - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has had an epiphany on abortion — not once, but twice.
The first time was when Romney was a young man in the 1960s and his brother-in-law’s sister — an engaged-to-be-married teen who became pregnant — died in a botched illegal abortion.
Roughly three decades later, while campaigning for the Senate in 1994, Romney described that tragedy as the event that triggered his conclusion that regardless of personal beliefs, abortion should be safe and legal.
