And neither will Rudy Giuliani. I didn't bring Reagan into this debate. If you're going to defend a the remarks of another FReeper, try reading what she wrote and stop attempting to be rhetorically cute.
>>>>>POTUS can do very little about social issues like abortion. We have had two four year GOP presidencies,Reagan and Bush, and abortion is still a Constitutional "right", and legal.
The degree which a POTUS can have affect on the abortion issue, is significant. Reagan and Bush43 proved what a pro-life POTUS can accomplish. Reagan's record on abortion:
*Reagan supported legislation that would allow for a challenge of Roe vs. Wade, while promoting a Right to Life amendment to the US Constitution.
*Reagan adopted the "Mexico City Policy" halting federal aid to private groups promoting abortions abroad.
*The Reagan admin cut off funding to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities because the global agency violated U.S. law by participating in China's mandatory abortion program.
*The Reagan admin adopted regulations prohibiting federally funded "family planning clinics" from promoting abortion as birth control.
*Reagan himself introduced the issue of fetal pain into the public debate over abortion.
*The Reagan White House blocked use of federal money for research using the tissue of aborted babies. A forerunner to banning partial birth abortion.
*The Reagan admin helped win approval of the "Danforth Amendment," which said federally funded educational institutions could not be guilty of "sex discrimination" for refusing to pay for abortions.
*The Reagan admin was key in enactment of laws protecting the right to life of handicapped newborns.
*Reagan designated a National Sanctity of Human Life Day, to recognize the value of life at all stages.
*Reagan was the first Prez to address the annual WashDC March for Life. An annual pro-life event Reagan always made public remarks to.
Ronald Reagan was also America's first pro-life President, post Roe v Wade. His essay, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation" clearly spelled out Reagan's strong pro-life position. If you think Rudy Giuliani would ever write the following, you're living in a world of delusion.
"Our nation-wide policy of abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people, nor enacted by our legislators--not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. [It was] an act of raw judicial power"...
"Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. Nowhere do the plain words of the Constitution even hint at a "right" so sweeping as to permit abortion up to the time the child is ready to be born."
"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life."
"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."
The point is that the POTUS can do very little about abortion EXCEPT appoint the right kind of Justices to SCOTUS. Rudy has already gone on the record that he would appoint Justices in the mold of Scalia, Alito, and Roberts.
POTUS can do very little about social issues like abortion. After two four year GOP presidencies, Reagan and Bush, abortion is still a Constitutional "right", and the law of the land.
If Rudy is not the nominee, I will vote for whomever the nominee will be.