The Rudy Record

Via Ramesh Ponnuru, a solid look at Rudy Giuliani's not-at-all-ambiguous record on abortion issues:

Mary Alice Carr, vice president for Communications at NARAL Pro-Choice New York, still has a proclamation signed by Giuliani that made Jan. 22, 1998 "Roe v. Wade Anniversary Day" in the city. She also provided a copy of a NARAL questionnaire from 1997, signed by Giuliani.

Would he support unrestricted Medicaid funding for abortions? Would he oppose legislation that made minors get parental or court approval before getting an abortion? Did he agree with the Roe v. Wade decision?

Giuliani circled Yes, Yes and Yes.

Obviously, with things like his promise this weekend to veto any effort to repeal the Hyde Amendment, Giuliani's trying to flip-flop to a less pro-choice posture, but that seems likely to expose him to (accurate, it seems to me) charges of lack of principle without really assuaging pro-lifers' doubts.

Comments

9/11 forced him to rethink his position (which is why Mitt Willard will lose - it was Terry Schiavo that made him change his.)

Posted by david | October 14, 2007 5:24 PM

Principles? We don't need no stinkin' principles?

Posted by Reality Man | October 14, 2007 5:40 PM

Maybe Rudy can use the new study of the WHO and Guttmacher about abortion:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360761575X/abstract
And let the Head of the republicans fundies spin 180° further.
According to the summary of the study made by the NYtimes
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360761575X/abstract
- Abortion rates do not increase if abortion is legal.
In fact, the decisive factor is another one:
they are the lower in countries with the policies most open to contraception (who would have guessed...)

- you definitely save most lifes life by making abortion legal (less pregnant women do die in unsafe illegal abortion procedures).

In short: Rudy is Pro-choice because he is pro-life (or is it the opposite?)

I can´t wait to see the comments-wars on the internet about this study...

Posted by Nothing to say about that? | October 14, 2007 6:14 PM

Do Democrats have more to gain by trying to convince evangelicals Giuliani is not one of them or by trying to convince Independents Giuliani is not one of them?

Do evangelicals listen to Democrats at all?

Posted by Linus | October 14, 2007 10:40 PM