• Blitzer: Let's talk about abortion rights, because, on this issue, you have changed your opinion.

• Governor Mitt Romney: Yes. You know, I -- when I was elected governor...

• Blitzer: You used to support a woman's right...

• Governor Mitt Romney: Well, what...

• Blitzer: ... to have an abortion.

• Governor Mitt Romney: Well, when I was elected governor, I said that I didn't support abortion, but I wouldn't change the laws in Massachusetts. And people said, well, that is effectively pro-choice. I didn't argue with them. I didn't take the label pro-choice. But I did take the label pro-life, following the debate associated with stem cell research.

I sat into my office. And a provost of Harvard University and the head of stem cell research came in and said: Governor, this isn't a moral issue, because we kill the embryo after 14 days.

And that struck me as being a -- just a blow to the gut, because I recognized that we had so cheapened the value of human life, through the Roe v. Wade mentality, that I could no longer stand on the sidelines, if you will. I had to take sides.

And I call myself firmly pro-life.

Questions

Abortion Questions for Governor Mitt Romney

Abortion

1. George Stephanopoulos
1. So do you now believe that abortion is murder?
2. Should women who have abortions and doctors who perform them be jailed?
3. If it's killing, why should states have leeway?
4. What do you believe the punishment should be for an abortion?
2. Wolf Blitzer
1. Have you changed your opinion on Abortion?
2. What is your current position on abortion?
3. How do you account for your change on abortion?
3. 1st Debate
1. Would it be a good day for America if Roe v Wade was repealed?
2. Have you always been for life or effectively pro-choice?
3. When you said that being a pro-life president entails more than just appointing strict constructionist judges, was that directed at Giuliani?
4. 2nd Debate
1. What would you say to someone who lost a wife or a daughter to an illegal abortion if you named the Supreme Court justice who tipped the balance and over turned Roe v Wade?
2. Governor Romney, during this campaign, you have been criticized -- and again tonight you've been criticized -- for changing your position on some issues. You say that it's a part of learning from experience. Can you point to an area in which your learning from experience led you to change to a position that is less popular with the Republican base?
5. Katherine Jean Lopez
1. Were you faking it when you said you were pro-choice?
6. Dan Balz, David S Broder and Ruth Marcus
1. Do you support making abortion illegal?
7. Mary Katharine Ham
1. What do you think about the partial-birth abortion ban?
8. Mike Allen
1. What policies would you initiate to show your sincerity?