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Giuliani has been carefully preparing for this moment. He spent the past election season accumulating a reservoir of good will among Republicans, campaigning hard for Republican candidates from Oregon to New Hampshire. He was particularly adept at raising money for those candidates and has established himself as one of few presidential hopefuls capable of raising the $100 million or so that is seen as necessary to win the White House. At the moment, he is getting help from Anne Dickerson, who ran President Bush’s highly successful Pioneer and Ranger fundraising machine in 2004. Giuliani has allied closely with Bush &...

by Ken Concannon Other Articles by Ken Concannon Sliding Down the Slope 08/02/04 Thirty-one years ago last January, newspaper and television reports about the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions described them as legalizing abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy and hailed the abortion decisions as triumphs for women's rights. Those of us at the time who were already concerned about the abortion issue believed otherwise. Unlike most of the media, anti-abortion activists took the time to read both decisions and concluded that they legalized abortion not just through the first trimester, but through all...

A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered New York-Presbyterian Hospital to turn over to the Justice Department records on abortions performed there, saying the disclosure would not unduly harm the hospital or the privacy of its patients. The ruling, issued on Thursday by Judge Richard Conway Casey of Federal District Court, conflicts with the interpretations of judges in other jurisdictions and creates further uncertainty about the limits of patients' medical privacy. Federal judges in Chicago and San Francisco have refused in recent weeks to order clinics and hospitals to turn over the abortion records sought by the Justice Department, and...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed into law the most far-reaching abortion restrictions in three decades Wednesday, an emotionally charged measure already challenged in three federal courts. A federal judge in Nebraska called the law "highly suspect" and issued a temporary order blocking it from applying to four abortion-rights doctors who filed suit. After years of frustration, legal setbacks and two presidential vetoes, hundreds of anti-abortion leaders rose in applause when Bush promised to vigorously defend the constitutionality of the law, known by its supporters as a "partial birth abortion" ban. "For years a terrible form of violence has been directed...