For those who are insisting that Rudy be pro-life in order to be the GOP nominee, consider:
He would appoint law and order judges, who tend to skew anti-abortion.
And Roe may not even be a factor for re-consideration in the Roberts Court. Especially is Bush fills the O'Connor seat AND the John Paul Stevens seat before '08.
Rudy will waltz through the southern primaries. He's got IOU's all over Dixie from the 02 and 04 election cycles, and will collect even more in the 06 cycle.
I've long felt that Rudy's best chance would be if abortion was no longer a federal issue in 2008. I know that he is also anti-Second Amendment, but he knows better than to mess with it. Besides, Congress is hesitant to even take up gun control issues (AWB being the big exception) and the Supreme Court has shown no interest in it.
No more than wishful thinking, without a basis in fact. We can imagine that Rudy would appoint our kind of judge, but unfortunately there is more reason to believe he would do the opposite.
I take him as a man of his word when he said, "I'll uphold a woman's right of choice," and, "I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal." He even called abortion a "right." (Rudy Giuliani, Sept. 1, 1989)
That is a promise to protect Roe v. Wade, as well as an endorsement of the judicial activism that gave us legalized abortion.