Posted on 01/18/2007 9:27:26 AM PST by Dark Skies
President Bush, put in place the Mexico City Policy (which bans govt funds to promote abortion overseas), the abortion ban at military hospitals, the partial-birth abortion ban, and reaffirmed the Hyde Amendement (which bars the use of medicaid funds for abortions).
The real reason why abortion rates declined was not anything Clinton did. It was due to extensive grass root lobbying by Right to Life groups to pass Parental Consent, 24 waiting laws, barring tax funded abortions and other restrictions on the state level. When these restrictions are enforced, the abortion rate decreases.
After if these restrictions are so minor, then why would pro-abort groups spend millions to shoot down the parental notification ballot in CA last year?
Rudy has more in common with Barney Frank than he does Duncan Hunter.
Lets not forget that he thinks Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an outstanding Supreme Court Justice or that he forced draconian asset forfeiture laws on New Yorkers.
i AM FOR LIFE BUT I AM AGAINST GOVERNMENT BEING THE ARBITRATOR OF WHETHER IT SHOULD EXIST.
I could be wrong, but I think the 2008 campaign is going to sort it all out. If Rudy (or Hunter for that matter) can withstand the slings and arrows of this campaign, he's the man.
Dear zarf,
"Neither radical side of this issue wants Roe overturned."
Oh, I don't know about that.
Most folks consider me pretty radical on the issue of abortion. My goal is ultimately to pass an amendment to the Constitution that recognizes the humanity and personhood of all human beings from conception to natural death, and requires the federal government and every state to pass laws protecting the right to life of these.
I know that once Roe was overturned, we wouldn't immediately get all we want. I've said before that overturning Roe is just the beginning of the battle.
However, I know that abortion would be modestly restricted in most states, and severely restricted in many.
It'd be a good start.
sitetest
Probably going to take a beating for this, but it's the combination of his social positions (pro-choice, anti-gun) that does me in on him. I like him on defense but the life AND second amendment issues say no.
Dear dmz,
I've seen polls that show this from time to time over the years.
In the past, I've even dug 'em up on-line and posted links.
However, I find this crapulent propagandistic filth oozing out from Mr. Giuliani's rear end so positively disgusting that I'm inclined to tell all his backers, do your own homework.
sitetest
LOL!
So you are against the government protecting human life?
One selling point Obama can make is that while he votes for the socialist agenda, he lives a socially conservative life unlike Republican candidates.
Every GOP candidate except for Ron Paul (and Hagel if he jumps in) is pro-Iraq-war and pro-military. I really don't see the Iraq War as a defining issue in the primaries unless a candidate emerges who is against it and has a chance to win.
Which leaves the other key issues for the base to chew on during the primaries. Abortion. Guns. What to do about illegal immigration. And quite frankly, Rudy is one of the two weakest candidates in those departments (McVain is the other).
And I also really don't see where being mayor of NY is a qualification to be CinC during wartime. Rudy did quite well in the aftermath of 9-11, but responding to a terrorist event is much different than commanding the military and the national security apparatus to try and prevent one.
Look, if Giuliani is pro-choice, then he's pro-choice, and the primary voters will have to decide whether that is an important issue to them or not. But this article is a real stretch to put it politely, unless you want to call Bill Clinton pro-life because the national abortion rate declined while he was in office.
No beating from me. I am amazed at the threads mentality that most of us are to give up our core values and support someone dynamically opposed to them just because of a R after his name. Incidentally the first lawsuit against the gun manufacturers was started by Julie Annie no less.
Just say no to Julie Annie!
An interesting way to put it! I like it!
Glad I don't waste my $ purchasing HUMAN EVENTS anymore. It looks like they have gone the way of the Republican party...down the drain and with good reason.
"Rudy's on the right track."
frightening to think because this would put America squarely on the wrong path. simple mouth service in the defense of unborn americans is all that's needed to still be considered 'conservative'..
its comical how much he sounds like hilary...
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