Posted on 05/14/2007 11:17:05 AM PDT by cpforlife.org
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Rudy Giuliani isn't doing himself any favors on abortion by upsetting pro-life Republican voters will constant reminders that he's pro-abortion. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards isn't helping him either as she lavished praise on the former New York City mayor over a speech he gave Friday. Last week, Giuliani appeared in Houston for a campaign stop and told voters there that his record as New York mayor and his dealing with issues like terrorism and crime made him the best candidate for president.
He said Republicans should support him on that basis even though he disagrees with most members of his party by supporting abortion and wanting to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research.
"If we don't find a way of uniting around broad principles that will appeal to a large segment of this country, if we can't figure that out, we are going to lose this election," he said.
Richards praised the comments in a press release LifeNews.com obtained.
It's encouraging to see that the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president supports the right to make personal private health care decisions free from government intrusion," she said.
"Giuliani's principled stand disproves the old-school belief that you have to check your convictions at the Presidential primary door," Richards added.
She warned that "Giuliani is pro-choice and at the front of the pack" claimed that "the days of the anti-choice strangle-hold on the Republican Party are numbered."
But, 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.
Polls have also shown that abortion is a winning issue for GOP presidential candidates.
Post-election polling after the 2004 presidential elections found that President Bush's pro-life stance gave him an edge over pro-abortion Sen. John Kerry.
A 2004 Wirthlin Worldwide post-election poll found that 42 percent of voters said abortion affected the way they voted for president. Twenty-four percent of voters cast their ballots for President Bush while 15% voted for Kerry, giving Bush a 9 percent advantage on the issue of abortion.
Eight percent of voters in the Wirthlin poll indicated abortion was the "most important" issue affecting their votes and Bush won among those voters by a six to two percent margin, leading Kerry by four percentage points among the most intense abortion voters.
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Rudy will drop out soon. He has just shot himself in both feet.
Stranglehold? I thought it was a boot to the neck.
Won’t this hurt the feelings of the anyone-but-Hillary crowd?
We can both strangle them and put a boot on their necks.
Pro-lifers are very limber folks.
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Who owns Planned Parenthood? I’m sure that ownership is buried several layers deep but somebody(s)are making a fortune off of baby murder.
I would think by now someone has ferreted out the names of these monsters.
I’m going to need some yoga.
I don’t like yogurt. It gives me gas real bad.
A disqualifying issue is one which is of such gravity and importance that it allows for no political maneuvering. It is an issue that strikes at the heart of the human person and is non-negotiable. A disqualifying issue is one of such enormity that by itself renders a candidate for office unacceptable regardless of his position on other matters.
FIVE such disqualifying issues are: Abortion, Euthanasia, Fetal Stem Cell Research, Human Cloning, and homosexual marriage.
Ghouliani disqualifyies himself on EACH ISSUE.
He's also out on RKBA.
But he could have a future at Planned Parenthood.
Any friend of Planned Barrenhood is an enemy of mine...and of millions of unborn babies.
As a Catholic conservative, I believe it would be a mortal sin to vote for Rudy Giuliani.
If we learned anything last month on the bug-zapper thread, it was that most of the "anyone-but-Hillary" crowd was actually the "not-another-conservative" crowd as evidenced by the fact that Rudy was they only acceptable candidate for any of them.
My guess is that Rudy is sticking to his Pro Abortion stance based largely on a past history of a former lover of his having an Abortion. There may even be a letter or voice message of Rudy truing to convince his lover to have an abortion.
Just Speculation..
Has Rudy been endorsed by NARAL?
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