Video: Giuliani opposes ban on partial-birth abortion I find it difficult to believe you have either not read or heard about Giuliani's strong opposition to banning partial-birth abortion. However, there you have it now. So, if you continue saying that Giuliani would have supported the ban from this point forward, there will be no doubt you know you are stating what you know to be a falsehood.
You keep saying that a President can't have an affect on abortion. The President appointed the justices that made the difference in the ruling. The President signed into law the ban that Giuliani opposed and would have vetoed. Giuliani also supports taxpayer funding for abortions.
Video: Giuliani - "There must be public funding for abortions...I disagree with President Bush's veto last week of public funding for abortions
If you support Giuliani, that is your choice. But for goodness sake, quit trying to tell he's something that he's not. It does not make for constructive dialog. It's incredible how the other day you actually stated that because I had problems with someone appearing on a gay porn show that it really means I opposed helping the 9/11 victims. That was a messed up comment. Is there no end to what you will say to justify any behavior?
Giulliani fully supports the SCOTUS decision on PBA and said so.
Rudy Giuliani Supports Partial Birth Abortion
Click HERE for Video of Giuliani in his own words.
[GEORGE] WILL: Is your support of partial birth abortion firm?
Mayor GIULIANI: All of my positions are firm. I have strong viewpoints. I express them. And I--I do not think that it makes sense to be changing your position....
ABC News February 6, 2000
TUCHMAN: Giuliani was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions, something Bush strongly supports.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
- CNN December 2, 1999
BLITZER: If you were in the Senate
and [President Clinton] vetoed, once again, the [ban on the] so-called partial-birth abortion procedure, you would vote against sustaining that against the -- in favor of the veto in other words, you would support the president on that.
GIULIANI:
Yes. I said then that I support him, so I have no reason to change my mind about it. BLITZER: All right. So the bottom line is that on a lot of these very sensitive issues whether on guns, abortion, patients' bill of rights, taxes,
you are more in line with the president and by association, with Mrs. Clinton, than you are against them. - CNN February 6, 2000
MR. RUSSERT: A banning of late-term abortions, so-called partial-birth abortions--you're against that?
MAYOR GIULIANI: I'm against it in New York, because in New York...
MR. RUSSERT: Well, if you were a senator, would you vote with the president or against the president? [Note: President Clinton was in office in 2000]
MAYOR GIULIANI: I would vote to preserve the option for women. I think that choice is a very difficult one. It's a very, very--it's one in which people of conscious have very, very different opinions. I think the better thing for America to do is to leave that choice to the woman, because it affects her probably more than anyone else....
MR. RUSSERT: So you won't change your view on late-term abortion in order to get the Conservative Party endorsement?
MAYOR GIULIANI: It isn't just that. We shouldn't limit this to one issue. I'm generally not going to change my views
- NBC Meet the Press, February 6, 2000
***Note: the version of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban that Giuliani opposed in 2000, that he said he supported Bill Clinton in vetoing the Republican-controlled Congress's legislation, contained the exception for the life of the mother that Rudy is now trying to pretend is a prerequisite for his support of it.