National Right to Life pens a column that looks at the implications inherent in a Giuliani candidacy:
We are told by various experts that Giuliani's gestures to pro-lifers will be--should be--enough for us to enthusiastically support a man who once said, hypothetically, he'd pay for his own daughter's abortion.
Choosing someone like Giuliani could fracture the coalition that has elected pro-life Presidents five of the last seven presidential elections and resulted in a Supreme Court which has upheld the first ban on an abortion procedure since 1973.
The likelihood of another Clinton in the White House is dramatically increased if Giuliani is the Republican nominee.
But insisting that Giuliani is the Republican most likely to keep her out of the White House is to falsely assume that choosing a pro-abortionist to head the party that has stood for Life since 1980 makes it more likely the GOP would prevail over Sen. Clinton rather than less likely. So much is at stake that such a fatally wrong diagnosis must be rejected.
We know that the Movement has made steady progress since 1980. The number of abortions has diminished--still horribly high but much lower than in the 1990s. Conversations about the intricacies of fetal development that were few and far between are now common currency, made possible by 4-D color ultrasounds and a younger population that is more pro-life than ever. Pro-life groups are also now thriving in states where they were once virtually invisible.
Having made all these gains, assisted in no small measure by genuinely pro-life Presidents, pro-lifers are now being told that we would be better off with Giuliani as the nominee. Why?
Paradoxically, because his position is not the same as President Reagan's or President George H.W. Bush's, or President George W. Bush's. Sure, they won five elections between them and, granted, the country is more open to the pro-life message than ever before, but it is Giuliani's position on abortion, we are told, that is supposedly is harmony with the majority of Americans.
A majority of Americans oppose the reasons that account for more than 90% of the abortions performed in the United States. This majority accepts abortion only in cases where the mother's life is at risk, or in case of rape and incest, or doesn't accept any abortions.
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