However, the facts reveal that Kaine has consistently been pro-choice throughout his long political career.

Leading pro-choice group Planned Parenthood has assigned Tim Kaine a perfect score of “100” based on his career in politics, meaning that he has sided in favor of pro-choice legislation every single time it’s been put in front of him. Another leading abortion rights group, NARAL, has also assigned Kaine a perfect rating.

So what’s the problem? Some of the confusion may he coming from the fact that Kaine, being Catholic, is personally opposed to abortion but he nonetheless strongly believes that government should stay out of the matter. In his own words:

“People use labels all the time. But I’m kind of a traditional Catholic. I don’t like it personally. I’m opposed to abortion. And personally I’m opposed to the death penalty. I deeply believe, and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality, that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They’re moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. So I’ve taken a position which is quite common among Catholics. I’ve got a personal feeling about abortion, but the right role for government is to let women make their own decisions.” (source

This means that Tim Kaine has a stance on abortion that’s similar to that of current Vice President Joe Biden, who stated during the VP debates that while he was personally opposed to abortion for religious reasons, he fully supported a woman’s right to choose and was strongly opposed to any governmental attempt at limiting that right.