Rudy Giuliani: [to SC Firefighters & Police] 'A Woman Has the Right to Choose Abortion'

Associated Press/Newsmax.com ^ | 2.22.07 | staff report

[meg88]

hursday, Feb. 22, 2007 8:13 a.m. EST

Rudy Giuliani: 'A Woman Has the Right to Choose' Abortion

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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani met with firefighters and police officers in this early voting state Wednesday, using the forum to reference the Sept. 11 terror attacks, which earned him national attention.

"The first people that arrive on the scene of the bombing or the anthrax attack ... it's going to be one of your brothers or your sisters or you that gets to do it," the former New York mayor told a crowd of about 200 emergency workers. "Your ability to do it well will once again determine if we save lives - save America."

Giuliani compared firefighters and police to uniformed military personnel and said the federal Department of Homeland Security needs to ensure first responders "have the training and protection you need to defend your country."

Giuliani has a tough road ahead in South Carolina, which is to host the first Southern primaries in 2008. His moderate positions on gun control and support for abortion rights do not sit well with the state's Christian conservatives, who accounted for a third of the 2000 GOP primary vote. Those voters swung heavily to President Bush that year, giving him a 2-1 ratio margin over Arizona Sen. John McCain, who was viewed as soft on abortion.

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On Wednesday, Giuliani reiterated his own position.

"I'd advise my daughter or anyone else not to have an abortion," Giuliani said. "I'd like to see it ended, but ultimately I believe that a woman has the right to choose.

"I believe that you've got to run based on who you are, what you really are and then people actually get a right to disagree with you," he said. "And I find if you do it that way, even people who disagree with you sometimes respect you."

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"We're a tremendous amount of time away from an election," he said. "We haven't even gotten to a primary yet. The best thing we can do now is organize."

© 2007 Associated Press.

[ichabod1]

Nevertheless, we aren't going to stop having abortion be a litmus test issue. I could never vote for a proabortionist.

[ichabod1]

I expect he viewed abortion, at least if he could have seen the scale it would one day be practiced on, as a far, far worse evil than slavery ever was.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

Instead we have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Without life, those other rights are unimportant. Dead people don't worry much about liberty and happiness.

You one-issue voters are going to cause the downfall of the GOP! (sarcasm)

(I agree with you totally.)

[Condor51]

Rudy better have 'his people' get that incomplete FEC Form they filed PDQ and check box: 'Democratic Party' .

[xzins]

one issue voter...

Thanks for your beliefs, HCM. They are the focal point for the salvation of the nation.

Life is not a "single issue." "Life" is only a single word.

But because the opposite of "life" is "death," then it touches on every single issue in America. It touches every single right and every single belief.

Dead people don't write, go to school, argue politics, fight for their country, try to buy guns, register to vote, or participate in a host of other "issues."

Life is not a single issue, because life it the foundation for every other issue.

[007girl]

"If a judicial nominee can look at a sonogram, the picture of an unborn child, and not see a valuable human life, I'm not going to give him an appointment to the court," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. "I am going to give him an appointment to an optometrist to get a set of eyeglasses."


I LOVE THIS MAN!!!

[WalterSkinner]

Rudy Giuliani: 'A Woman Has the Right to Choose' Abortion

..keep digging, mayor...

[jla]

That's contradicted by what he said as mayor of NY--where he said he'd pay for his daughter's abortion... Real class act, this guy.

Giuliani is hypocrisy personified.

[LtdGovt]

It was Lincoln, I believe, that said: "You never have the right to do what is wrong".

Would that include misquoting Lincoln?

[LtdGovt]

Exactly nobody cares about the rights of the unborn child. I hate that a an unborn child has to pay with their his life, because their his parents can't be responsible for their actions.

What do you think of abortion in cases of rape?

[don-o]

Giuliani said. "I'd like to see it ended, but ultimately I believe that a woman has the right to choose.

I hate that term "right to choose." Like you can choose chocolate or vanilla ice cream?

How about "right to choose to have surgical instruments and a suction hose inerted into her womb, with the intent of destroying the human life that is growing in there."?

[LtdGovt]

"If a judicial nominee can look at a sonogram, the picture of an unborn child, and not see a valuable human life, I'm not going to give him an appointment to the court," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.

So Duncan Hunter wants his judicial nominees to outlaw abortion nationwide. Interesting. I thought he was against judicial activism.

[zarf]

There is no right to choose. None. Nada.

The courts have said otherwise. Women can choose to have them.

Enjoy sitting out the election.

[don-o]

So Duncan Hunter wants his judicial nominees to outlaw abortion nationwide.

You surely know it doesn't work like that. Roe overturned all state law that regulated / banned abortion at the time. A reversal of Roe puts the responsibility / power back to the states.

[Antoninus]

So Duncan Hunter wants his judicial nominees to outlaw abortion nationwide. Interesting. I thought he was against judicial activism.

Judicial activism is what gave us Roe V. Wade. I love how some people are stare decisis types only now that the damage has been done. Personally, I'm in favor of conservative judicial activism to the extent that it undoes all the damage the liberal activists courts have done from the 1960s on.

[Antoninus]

The courts have said otherwise. Women can choose to have them.

It's refreshing to see so many pro-abort ghouls outting themselves, now that they think their guy is in command. You're in for a rude awakening, friend.

[nctexan]

"It's a self-indulgence I don't think I can afford."

Me too... I'm kinda sitting here like a kid in front of the Christmas tree, hoping Santa will bring me the new "GI Joe/Superman/Billy Graham doll" to wear the Republican mantle.

Might have to settle for Barbie.

I've put the cookies and milk out... but still waiting.

[zarf]

It's refreshing to see so many pro-abort ghouls outting themselves, now that they think their guy is in command.

Why do you label me pro-abort? OUY make such rash assumptions, however I was stating a fact.

D you deny abortion is mostly legal in this country?

[rhombus]

I'm kinda sitting here like a kid in front of the Christmas tree, hoping Santa will bring me the new "GI Joe/Superman/Billy Graham doll" to wear the Republican mantle.

Hahaha, nice way to put it. I call it waiting in the pumpkin patch for the Conservative Great Pumpkin. Well, keep hope alive, Linus. There's still a long way to go. :-)

[George W. Bush]

Exactly nobody cares about the rights of the unborn child. I hate that a unborn child has to pay with their life, because their parents can't be responsible for their actions.

Actually, the unborn has rights if mama thinks she wants it.

If she wants the child, then it's a baby. In many states, you can be prosecuted for causing the death of the unborn if the child was wanted by the mother. But if mama doesn't want it, then it's just tissue, like a cancerous tumor.

Legally, Roe stinks because it makes the human rights of a child depend on how a pregnant woman feels on any given day.