Republicans attack Romney over abortion flip-flop

November 25, 2007

Columbia, South Carolina - Republican presidential candidates Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee attacked Mitt Romney's record on abortion Saturday, suggesting Romney cannot be trusted because of his past support for abortion rights.

The attacks come one week after Romney's campaign sent out a mailer in South Carolina claiming he's "the only presidential candidate who supports the Republican party's pro-life platform: a constitutional amendment banning abortion nationwide."

The mail piece touts Romney as "the Governor who sided with life ... every single time," referring specifically to legislation Romney supported while in office in Massachusetts.

His opponents point out his pro-choice stance while in office.

Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who opposes an abortion amendment and says the issue should be decided by individual states, grinned when asked about the mail piece and said that before Romney decided to run for president, he "was one of the most adamant pro-choice advocates that I had ever seen."

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