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I just found this article. I thought this thread was a good place to post it. Suggest all conservatives archive it and use it when the liberal Rudy-rooters spew their nonsense about Rudy not being pro-abortion. Heck, even loony lefty Tom Daschle was opposed to partial birth abortion, but Giuliani supports it.

Giuliani is Pro-Abortion
Republican National Coalition for Life
New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is popular in the big apple because he is credited with reducing crime and cleaning up Times Square, among other accomplishments. Now at the end of his career as Mayor (he is prevented by law from seeking another term), Giuliani is traveling about the country giving speeches and acting like a potential candidate for something. Pundits are speculating that he might be interested in a vice presidential spot on a ticket possibly headed by Texas Governor George W. Bush.
Although he doesn’t talk about it in conservative circles, Mayor Giuliani is pro-abortion. Columnist Thomas Edsall wrote this in the Washington Post on December 30, 1997: “Giuliani defended President Clinton when he was criticized by the Vatican earlier this year for his veto of the ban on the late-term abortion procedure. Giuliani is on record saying New York state law should not be changed to outlaw the procedure.”
More recently, Liz Trotta had this to say in the Washington Times (8/25/98): “Thirty years ago, Rep. Peter King, a GOP congressman from Long Island worked alongside Mr. Giuliani when they were interns in Richard M. Nixon’s law firm. In those days, Mr. King recalled, the mayor was a “radical left” supporter of activists like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown. “He didn’t think much of Republicans then,” said Mr. King, “except maybe Rocky” — former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Citing the mayor’s stands on abortion and homosexual rights, Mr. King described Mr. Giuliani as “too liberal” and “too temperamental” to be a GOP presidential choice.
The vice president is a heartbeat away from the presidency. Candidates for both offices must be judged by the same criteria — they must have respect for the sanctity of human life and be committed to protecting the God-given right to life. Mayor Giuliani, Governor Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey, former Governor Pete Wilson of California, all of whom hold the same pro-abortion views as Bill Clinton, do not deserve the presidential or vice presidential nominations of the Republican Party because they oppose the first principles upon which our great nation was founded.

Here's another interesting article I just found:

Baltimore's Cardinal Keeler Refuses to Attend Loyola Commencement Honoring Giuliani
Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore informed Loyola College of Maryland interim president David Haddad that the Cardinal refuses to participate in an event honoring Rudolph Giuliani, an advocate of abortion rights and probable Republican candidate for U.S. president in 2008. The former New York City mayor has been invited to deliver Loyola's commencement address and receive an honorary degree on Friday, May 20.
"There will be no representative of the Archdiocese of Baltimore participating in any event honoring former Mayor Giuliani," Keeler wrote in a letter dated May 18, noting that he and Haddad had an "earlier exchange of correspondence" about the college's invitation to Giuliani. In what may be a subtle threat to Loyola College's official recognition by the Cardinal as a Catholic institution, Keeler wrote, "I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani to receive an honorary degree at Loyola. May the Lord make this a teaching moment for many." (The Cardinal Newman Society News Alert, 5/18/05)