Giuliani = Pro-Abortion Extremist

Rudy Giuliani is not a moderate on the abortion issue. Giuliani’s position on the issue is far more radical than most Democrats.

Partial Birth Abortion – This is testimony from a nurse who witnessed a partial birth abortion that was quoted in the Stenberg v. Carhart case.

“The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp.” H. R. 1833 Hearing 18 (statement of Brenda Pratt Shafer).

According to an ABC News poll, 69% of people in the U.S. believe that this partial birth abortion procedure should be made illegal. The same poll revealed that 63% of liberals believe that this procedure should be illegal. When the partial birth abortion issue was voted on in the U.S. Senate, it passed by a bipartisan vote of 64 to 33. Yet, Giuliani stated on Meet the Press that it is his firm viewpoint that partial birth abortion should be legal. See Interview @ You Tube.

Public Funding for Abortion – Government funding for abortion is as unpopular with the public as partial birth abortion. A recent Zogby Poll revealed that 74% of the public opposes public money being used for abortion. Yet, Giuliani’s view on abortion is so liberal that he is among the 26% of Americans who believe that the government should pay for women to have abortions. When Giuliani ran for Mayor of New York in 1989, he said directly that he supported public funding of abortion. See Speech @ You Tube. Giuliani was asked the same question again on April 4, 2007 in an interview on CNN, and he stated directly that he still supports government funding for abortion. See Interview @ You Tube.

Appointment of Judges – As President of the United States, Giuliani would have the power to appoint judges to the federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court. It is possible that a liberal Supreme Court justice might resign during his term as President, which if replaced by a pro-life judge would allow Roe v. Wade to be overturned since there are currently probably four justices on the Supreme Court now who would overturn Roe. Giuliani has tried to appear accommodating on judicial appointments by stating that he would appoint strict constructionists. However, Giuliani has stated repeatedly that he does not believe that a strict constructionist that he appoints would necessarily overturn Roe. See Larry King Interview @ You Tube; See CNN Interview.

Myth Number One – Giuliani has been claiming that he reduced the rate of abortions while he was Mayor of New York City. If the rate of abortions did go down while he was Mayor, that does not prove that he was the factor that produced the decline in abortions. In order for him to rightly be able to make such a claim, he would have to show what policies he implemented that reduced the abortion rate, and Giuliani did not implement any policies while he was Mayor that would produce a decline in abortions. The good economic conditions during the 1990s are a better explanation for a decline in the abortion rate than is Giuliani. Giuliani was the Mayor of a city that New York Times Magazine has labeled the “Abortion Capital of America” because it has the highest abortion rate in American and the most permissive abortion laws, and there is no evidence that Giuliani ever did anything while he was Mayor other than support those laws.

Myth Number Two – Giuliani has indicated that he will not support publicly funded abortions at the federal level and that he will continue to allow the Hyde Amendment, which bans public funding, to exist. First, even if Giuliani did not actually implement Federal funding for abortions, that does not eliminate the concern. The concern is that he believes that public funding for abortions is a good idea, and this proves how radical his support is for abortion. Then we must ask the question of whether we can trust a person who has a radical stance on the abortion issue to support Federal restrictions on abortion and to get pro-life judges on the Federal courts? He cannot be trusted. Second, Giuliani does support public funding for abortion at the Federal level because he supports Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, which destroys human beings at the embryonic stage in a fashion that is no different from abortion. The only thing preventing Federal funding right now is the veto pen of President Bush. If Giuliani does become President, Federal funding for the destruction of human embryos will be a certainty. This Federal funding will help produce the deaths of millions of people.

The thing that is scary about Giuliani is that he is not even trying to hide his extreme position on abortion despite the fact that it is in his political self-interest to do so. This proves how extreme and radically committed he is to maintaining and perpetuating a state of affairs in the United States where more than one million innocent babies are slaughtered every year.

(Posted by Trask)