Alito against abortion before he pretended to be moderately for it

MSNBC Oct 31, 2005:

[Pennsylvanian Republican Senator Arlen] Specter seemed to go out of his way to try to persuade abortion rights supporters, of whom he is one, that Alito is not beyond the pale.

He said Alito’s dissent in a 1991 abortion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, "does not signify disagreement with Roe v Wade" the 1972 ruling which legalized abortion nationwide. Specter said that nothing in what Alito had written in that case "suggests disagreement with the underlying decision in Roe v. Wade."

I wonder if Arlen reads the Washington Times:

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times.

"I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position, Mr. Alito wrote on his application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III.

So how does Arlen feel about that? And how will he, as head of the judiciary committee, reconcile this with his own feelings on abortion rights? Maybe the coming Alito confirmation battle won't be so boring after all.