Posted on 04/26/2007 10:06:32 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani defended his position on abortion and partial-birth abortion during a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The former New York City mayor told voters that he's not being inconsistent when he says he supports abortion but also backs the Supreme Court ruling on the partial-birth abortion ban. Giuliani insisted that his recent support for the partial-birth abortion ban and the high court's ruling upholding it was consistent with his past opposition to the ban.
"I think you can be personally opposed to it, hate abortion, respect somebody else's conscience who might make a different decision, and also believe that particular form of abortion is wrong," he said.
He said he shifted his position on the ban when lawmakers adopted "more scientific language" in the life of the mother provision in the bill in 2003.
Giuliani explained that he opposed the partial-birth abortion ban in the 1990s and supported President Clinton's two vetoes of it because he didn't think the life of the mother exception was strong enough.
However, the premise behind Clinton's vetoes was his contention that the ban needed a health exception despite medical groups saying that the three-day-long abortion procedure is never medically necessary.
Giuliani previously told CNN's Inside Politics in a 1999 interview, that he does not support even a modest ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure saying, "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing."
Yet, in a Fox News interview in February, Giuliani said that he supports a ban on partial-birth abortion as long as there is a provision to protect the life of the mother.
"If it has provision for the life of the mother, then I would support it," he told the Fox News program.
But his pro-abortion views overall are turning him off with GOP voters and the more the abortion issue comes up the more his poll numbers are beginning to fall.
Republican voters have previously turned away pro-abortion candidates from capturing the primary nod, including former California Gov. Pete Wilson and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter. Republicans haven't had a pro-abortion nominee since Gerald Ford in 1976.
Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are the top two candidates in the polls apart from Giuliani.
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are also running and drawing significant support from the pro-life community.
Other potential Republican candidates include pro-life former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, pro-life Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, and former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson are also in the mix.
Reminds me of a line in a country and western song:
“Say the words I want to hear.”
“And then pay for the murder of your grandchild with your American Express.”
"I think you can be personally opposed to it, hate abortion terrorism, respect somebody else's conscience who might make a different decision, and also believe that a particular form of abortion terrorism is wrong."
"I think you can be personally opposed to it, hate abortion child abuse, respect somebody else's conscience who might make a different decision, and also believe that a particular form of abortion child abuse is wrong."
Dang. No matter how I tweak it, the structure of the argument always produces a moral ZERO.
Congratulations, Rudy!
You’ve won the “Most Duplicitous Scumbag of the Week” award.
Be proud!
Not only does Giuliani enjoy wearing high heels, but he also has a flip-flop fetish.
For Giuliani, it is perfectly acceptable for a doctor to insert a surgical device into the mothers body, grab hold of an infants feet, pull the baby out of the canal(except for the head), thrust a blunt rod into the base of his skull, and extract the baby's brain, although he can be personally opposed to this procedure.
Moral ZERO is right, my friend.
What a drag ----queen!
>> Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are the top two candidates in the polls apart from Giuliani. <<
When I read that, I said to myself, “OK, they mustn’t be counting Fred Thompson,” but then they list him at the end. Fred has beaten Romney in every poll I’ve ever seen him listed in. MY guess is LifeSite isn’t buying that Thompson is pro-life, in spite of his perfect pro-life voting record. It’s funny, then, that they accept Romney’s claims.
You KNOW where Osama is????
(What, you work for CNN?)
They said “top two CANDIDATES.”
Fred hasn’t announced yet.
I guess Giuliani couldn’t stand the prosperity of making a good speech and actually being praised by conservatives so he decided to stick his head up his butt again.
He's politically positioning himself.
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Yes, but do you support the use of taxpayer funding for Olberman-slaying?
Giuliani was for it before he was against it, before he was against it, he was for it. Got it?
Giuliani’s claim to fame is he made a speech after the collapse of the WTC. Whoooooopee.
There is no worse candidate for America.
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