Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking flak over a new photo that shows him attending a 1994 fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. The photo comes after statements Romney and his wife made during the election that they don't recall making a $150 donation to the abortion business.

ABC News featured the picture on its web site Tuesday showing Mitt and Ann Romney standing with local abortion advocates, including Nicki Nichols Gamble, the former president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.

Gamble told ABC that the event was a fundraising house party in June 1994, when Romney was involved in a bitter battle to defeat pro-abortion Sen. Ted Kennedy.

It was at that event that Ann Romney wrote a check to the pro-abortion group on the Romney's joint checking account, Gamble indicated.

Romney campaign spokesman Kevin Madden told ABC News what he has said on previous occasions -- that the Romneys don't recall the circumstances of the donation from 13 years ago.
"As Mrs. Romney has stated previously, she is unfamiliar with the circumstances of a check she wrote close to 14 years ago," Madden said.

"During his campaign for U.S. Senate in 1994, it would not have been out of the ordinary for the governor to have attended an event, out of the hundreds that any candidate would attend during a campaign season, which involved a voter coalition and also have his wife accompanying him," he added.

Madden said the important point for the purposes of the 2008 presidential election is that Mitt Romney is now pro-life.

"Like Ronald Reagan before him, the governor has changed his position on this issue and changed it in the right way," Madden said. "Governor Romney does not regret, and won't apologize for the fact, that he has become pro-life."

In May, Romney disavowed the donation and said his wife's donations didn't necessarily represent his views.

"Her contributions are for her and not for me, and her positions I do not think are terribly relevant to my campaign," Romney told the Des Moines Register newspaper. "My positions are what I think is relevant for my campaign."

The former Massachusetts governor said the couple is now firmly pro-life and has given heavily to his state's leading pro-life group.

Romney added that he and Ann have donated "generously" to Massachusetts Citizens for Life -- to the tune of $15,000 -- and that Ann is now a leader in the organization.

"I know there are some campaigns that want to keep reminding people of that," said Romney. "It's really hard for me to gauge what people will do."

"I was wrong. ... I'm not going to apologize to anyone that I became pro-life," he added.

As LifeNews.com reported in August, Ann told a television news program that she didn't remember the donation. She said she no longer supports abortion and said she joins her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt, in taking a pro-life viewpoint.

"I don't even remember writing the check. I know today I wouldn't write the check. I mean, how do you remember all the checks you've written, you know -- how many years ago was that?" she told "Fox News Sunday" at that time.

Romney spokesman Kevin Madden told the Boston Globe in May, "Since it was so long ago, Ann has no information of the circumstances."

He said the check was signed by Ann Romney and that Mitt had not signed his name to any donation.