Roe v. Wade...to repeal or not to repeal

In 1999, John McCain made it clear that he felt Roe v. Wade should not be overturned:

“I’d love to see a point where it is irrelevant and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary,” Mr. McCain told The Chronicle. "But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America” to undergo “illegal and dangerous operations"

But but he began running for the Republican nomination in February 2007, he was not the least bit unclear:

I do not support Roe v. Wade — it should be overturned

Rather than admit that he had changed his position, he repeated in February that this was how he had always felt and disavowed his 1999 statement:

I either inartfully or incorrectly stated my position