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Posted on 10/29/2007 3:56:59 PM PDT by wagglebee
Cory Richards is the senior vice president and vice president for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a research group affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
Richards wrote an opinion column published in the Los Angeles Times on Monday saying that Giuliani's claims that his adoption advocacy resulted in a decrease in abortions in New York City can't be supported.
Giuliani has said that, while he was mayor, New York City "increased adoption by 133% over the eight years before [he] came into office."
Giuliani added that the city "found that abortions went down by 18% during that period of time" and that he believes such figures can be achieved nationwide.
But Richards says the increase in adoptions Giuliani refers to is children in the city's foster care system and "not in the rate at which women were continuing unwanted pregnancies and placing their infants for adoption rather than having abortions."
"Nothing in the data he cites indicates that there was any significant increase in the city's newborn relinquishment rate while he was mayor," Richards says.
This isn't the first time Giuliani's adoption claims have come under scrutiny and rebutted.
Earlier this month, Fordham University political science professor Bruce Berg reviewed all the tapes of Mayor Giuliani's press conferences dating back to 1996 and said he never once saw the mayor promote adoption.
Berg says the mayoral transcripts show repeated statements by Giuliani in 1997 and 1998 supporting abortion, saying abortions should be legal and criticizing the Republican Party for officially opposing abortion.
Meanwhile, Giuliani as previously claimed that adoptions went up 67 percent during his mayoral tenure, but the nonpartisan political watchdog Web site FactCheck said that number is inflated and put the rise at only 17 percent during his terms in office.
Although there were more adoptions during Giuliani's time in office than that of his predecessor David Dinkins, adoptions under Giuliani decreased five out of his final six years in office.
Tom McClusky, vice president of the Family Research Council's legislative branch, says “I think he’s taking credit for something he had very little to do with. Abortion did go down in the 90s, and it’s not really through any of his efforts.”
Berg says the mayoral transcripts show repeated statements by Giuliani in 1997 and 1998 supporting abortion, saying abortions should be legal and criticizing the Republican Party for officially opposing abortion.
It's time for Rooty Toot to go.
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Is there anything this man won’t lie about or take credit for? What a fake.
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Rudy is unsupportable.
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“Is there anything this man won’t lie about or take credit for?”
Not that we know of.
yeah, stop him even it means electing hillary. and using her stooges to do it.
Let me see if I have this straight, you and the other Rooty Rooters are trying to convince conservatives to elect leftist who opposes everything we stand for, yet you have the gall to call us "Hillary's stooges"?
You Rooty Rooters have a serious problem with projection.
Though, he does wear a dress more often...
...and Clinton was more apt at getting the dress removed. LOL
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He probably looks sharper in a pants suit than the opposition.
It's been a very long time since I plugged Giuliani. I'm currently not in favor of anyone. My remarks are based on observations.
Nobody currently posturing in the GOP has a snail's chance against a steamroller with the exception Giuliani, for better or for worse.
That doesn't make me "for" anyone. It's just, once again, an observation.
I’m not for Rudy but this is pretty weak.
Life News is printing a Rudy attack story based on an OPINION piece by a PRO-ABORTION minion and we’re supposed to buy into it?
Hmmmm....gotta do better than that!
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