With the beliefs you have about abortion I think it will probably be hard for you to see my side of this, because you categorize abortion as a 'social issue'. It's a human rights issue and it doesn't belong in the same category as should we say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. It's like saying slavery was a 'social issue'.
A seperate human fetus is involved here, so you can't just say it's a woman's right to her own body. Most pro-choicers believe that a human fetus has no human rights because it's located on one end of a woman's birth canal, but when it pops out the other end it's suddenly got some rights. For those that believe in partial-birth abortion those human rights don't even begin there if the child is judged to be defective.
So before you throw me into the 'religious right' trash bin, I'll also state that I believe that gay rights are not just a 'social issue'. I have people ask me how can you really be a Republican if you believe in gay rights. Well, I do have to look at my overall views and try to reconcile them all and as gays are not in danger of having their fundemental right to life taken away from them, abortion pulls me to the Republican side. Add to this, my thoughts on illegal immigration, international policy, big government and and I find myself clearly on the Republican side.
I can't support Giuliani because it doesn't matter to me that he has an R beside his name, he comes down on the other side of my beliefs on too many issues. I can make compromises because I know that I'm probably never going to find a politican that holds all my own core beliefs, but I can't sell out the majority of what I believe in unless it comes down to my only choice being between the worse of two evils. At this point there are options and I'm hoping that it doesn't come to that.
I very much appreciate your response, which was well-framed, well thought-out, and respectful.
I'll leave it at simply saying that you and I don't see these issues the same way and aren't likely to.