Posted on 01/20/2007 1:52:29 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
As pro-lifers prepare to mark Monday’s 34th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, many wonder whether they could support former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for president despite his pro-choice views. While some of Giuliani’s statements on abortion make pro-lifers fret, they should find his record surprisingly reassuring.
“I don’t like abortion,” Giuliani said in South Carolina’s The State newspaper last November 21. “I don’t think abortion is a good thing. I think we ought to find some alternative to abortion, and that there ought to be as few as possible.”
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Actually, if you read the article in its entirety, it proves that Guiliani is not as pro-abort as he is portrayed as being. And New York City saw a dramatic drop in the number of abortions performed there during his Mayorship.
I will, in a heartbeat, vote for him if it means I am casting a vote against Hillary Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Gore, Jon Carrey, etc., etc...I repeat, in a heartbeat!
He forgot to mention that they should be safe, not just few.
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Horse-poop. I read the article.
He gave the standard boiler plate garbage that Hillary and the other leftist baby killers say.
***And New York City saw a dramatic drop in the number of abortions performed there during his Mayorship.
That is utterly MEANINGLESS. He had zero to do with that. Zip, zero, nada, none. It was a coincidence, nothing more. No cause and effect. Joe the Homeless Squeegee Guy could have been mayor and had the same results.
2. The "dramatic drop in abortions" in New York City during Giuliani's term in office was much smaller than the drop in abortions nationwide during that period.
3. Murdock's attempt to paint Rudy Giuliani as an acceptable candidate for pro-life voters is pathetic. Giuliani has an extensive track record as a radical pro-abortion politician.
Duncan Hunter and the others some of you are excited about will go the same route as Bob Dole, into inevitable defeat. We have to choose a candidate with appeal to more than 25-30% of the country. I'll vote for Rudy, Mitt, even John McCain over the collection of Democrats who are running in 2008. And those 3 all at least have a chance, and wouldn't you rather have a SO-CALLED RINO (I hate that term, it's so judgmental) then a communist? And that is what they are in reality, just listen to them. We're already reaping the "rewards" of some choosing not to support a moderate over a few social issues, or feeling angry at a conservative like Santorum over some past position. Some of you laugh at a "big-tent" approach, but what else is realistic in a 2-party system?
Pro-life voters will split in '08...just about 50-50 dem and GOP.
No Republican has won the Presidency and been pro-choice. At least not since Roe vs. Wade.
That alone says that neither Rudy or Romney has a prayer.
You have no idea how many people won't vote for those two because of their support or past support for abortion rights.
Safe legal and rare doesn't cut it with those people. Its a matter of murder to them.
As you say, the drop in the abortion statistics is meaningless. It's like giving credit to clinton because abortions decreased under his rule.
But it's true, as I've said elsewhere, that although Giuliani has always talked the talk of an extreme pro-abort, he has avoided taking any obvious actions to promote abortion. And it's true that Bloomberg HAS taken such actions since he replaced Rudy.
We don't yet have anything like enough to go on, but it's possible Giuliani could change his position, and he doesn't have a record of actually doing anything while in office that led to more abortions.
It remains to be seen if he will change.
He's vehemently against the Second Amendment and he shares an apartment with two gay men.
Didn't Billy Jeff (aka x42i) say almost the exact same thing?
I understand that position perfectly. But I also know the alternative will be much more of what we've been seeing the past few days with Dems in power...a reversal of many rights and loss of the war most likely. And abortion is their main issue, they will take that as far as they can with judges and justices. I see it as a choice between a moderate who will choose acceptable judiciary and an extreme liberal who will set us back decades.
He moved in with a couple briefly, after Donna Hanover ejected him from Gracie Mansion. He has been married to Judy Nathan for several years now. Try to catch up.
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