I lived in NYC before and through his term.
It was simply a different city. He has quite liberal views on issues I feel are so important, but the reality is he lowered abortions by making options available. It's hard to reconcile it, but he talks liberal and moves society to the right.
I'll never forget the time, after his wife threw him out of Gracie Mansion (!), how he moved in with a close friend and his 'partner'. He joked about the peaceful household on his weekly radio show... I don't look at what he says, but what he did.
During Rudy's tenure, abortions declined at roughly half the national percentage decline.
From the FEC database: 04/24/1999 NEW YORK STATE NARAL INC WOMEN'S HEALTH POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE DONATIONS:
NARAL donated exclusively to Democrat candidates with one exception----Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani accepted $1,000 from NARAL in 1999.
NARAL gave $250 to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
NARAL gave $1000---4 times as much-----to pro-abortion Giuliani.
Clearly, NARAL trusted Rudy's pro-abortion credentials, and Rudy's willingness to advance NARAL's radical abortion-on-demand agenda, even more than NARAL trusted Hillary.
Rudy was the honored guest speaker and made The Opening Remarks to the N.A.R.A.L. "Champions of Choice" Luncheon few years back.
In a CNN interview Giuliani indicated he does not support even a modest ban on the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure saying, "No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing." Giuliani also indicated he would have upheld President Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.
"Maybe" Rudy offered women "other options" to abortion, as you indicated, but Rudy told Phil Donahue he'd give his daughter the money for an abortion (to get rid of his own grandchild).