Then why, Rudy, did you support Clinton's veto of a PBA ban that provided for exceptions when the life of the mother was at stake? Your past belies your present claims.
He’s proud that adoptions increased 66% while abortions decreased over 16% in New York City when he was Mayor.
Except that abortions nationwide dropped by roughly 28 percent. Which means under his leadership, abortion in NYC lagged well behind the national average. Rudy takes credit for reducing crime at a rate above the national decline during his tenure. He therefore should take blame for abortions in NYC lagging the national decline - but he won't.
When he was Mayor of a city suffering an average of almost 2000 murders a year, he protected people by getting illegal handguns out of the hands of criminals.
If only he stopped there. But he didn't. He also took guns away from long-time law-abiding permit holders. Supported and helped initial federal gun control laws. Gave liberal gun-grabbing efforts bipartisan legitimacy by appearing at Brady Center rallies. And sued gun manufacturers.
As a result, shootings fell by 72% and the murder rate was cut by two-thirds. But Rudy understands that what works in New York doesn’t necessarily work in Mississippi or Montana."
We don't need a president who thinks the Bill of Rights varies from state to state.
Hell, there won't be a bill of rights when he gets done with us!
"Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it." -Mayor Giuliani, New York Newsday pg A3 4/20/98
"State authority must provide for peace and order, and peace and order in turn must conversely make possible the existence of state authority. Within these two poles all life must now revolve...Ideas of 'freedom,' mostly of a misunderstood nature, inject themselves into the state conceptions of these circles". -Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf