the impression that he never really strongly supported abortion, but new revelations reported by the Los Angeles Times demonstrate otherwise. Notes taken by key leaders of the nation's most radical pro-abortion group, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), reveal that at a 2002 meeting, Romney assured them he would work to soften the GOP stance on abortion and said that the GOP's pro-life position was "killing them." He also promised to fight efforts by conservatives to require abstinence-only sex education in the schools. These are not the comments of someone who took this issue lightly, but rather the words of a person deeply committed to the pro-abortion issue. Romney's Conversion. Was it Authentic? Romney says he became "pro-choice" two years before Roe vs. Wade became law as a result of a death of relative due to an illegal abortion. But then, in November of 2004, at age 57 years old, he claimed to have had a second conversion about the issue while meeting with a stem cell researcher from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Romney claimed the researcher told him, Look, you don't have to think about this stem cell research as a moral issue, because we kill the embryos after 14 days. However, the media located the scientist, Dr. Douglas Melton, and he stated he never said such a thing: Governor Romney has mischaracterized my position; we didn't discuss killing or anything related to it....I explained my work to him, told him about my deeply held respect for