Litmus Test for Hypocrisy

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post

Why is it that abortion, a subject on which political candidates often claim to be expressing their most deeply held moral convictions, is often the issue on which they seem especially opportunistic and unprincipled?

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, has, in a little over a decade, moved from strong support of abortion rights (when he was running for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in 1994) to a point where he says he makes "no apology for the fact that I am pro-life."

Rudy Giuliani's support for abortion rights seems more constant, but his position, too, has evolved over the years, as Ray Rivera reported in the New York Times on Saturday.

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