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To: LindyBill who wrote (194347)	1/27/2007 8:11:48 AM
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He's going to have to learn how to finesse abortion better than this if he's going to get the nomination. Here he's just rubbing people's noses in it. Abortion Fits GOP Philosophy, Says Giuliani By Jeff McKay CNS Correspondent April 09, 2001 New York, N.Y. (CNSNews.com) - While the national Republican platform is decidedly pro-life and has been for the past two decades, the GOP mayor of the nation's largest city believes his party's philosophical underpinnings are more in tune with the pro-abortion point of view. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said favoring the availability of abortion is "more consistent with the philosophy of the Republican Party." Giuliani made his eyebrow-raising remarks at an awards luncheon April 6 sponsored by the National Abortion Rights Action League in New York City, a leading abortion group. Giuliani said his views on the Republican Party and the abortion issue stem from his belief that the GOP stands for increased individual freedom, while Democrats lean toward bigger and more controlling government. The mayor said he agrees with increased individual freedom and stated, "the philosophy of the party is in favor of choice," which would include abortions. While Giuliani has not been shy in the past about his stance on abortion, he went further in his most recent remarks, saying that he believes most of his fellow Republicans "oppose a GOP platform" that calls for a constitutional amendment which would ban abortions. The Republican platform, which is drafted every four years in the week preceding the party's nominating convention, has included calls for a constitutional amendment banning abortions since the 1980s, and the issue has become increasingly contentious within the GOP over the years. The luncheon included Giuliani, along with several Democratic challengers for mayor. Also in the crowd was Michael Bloomberg, a Democrat turned Republican who is expected to run for the office being vacated by Giuliani. Like the current mayor, Bloomberg shares Giuliani's position of keeping abortions readily available. "I don't think it has anything to do with a political party," said Bloomberg. "A woman's right to choose [abortion] ...you either believe it or you don't. And I do." Democrat Alan Hevesi, the city controller and leading mayoral candidate, weighed in by saying he was skeptical of Giuliani's argument. Hevesi also claimed the election of George W. Bush to the White House was "the most direct challenge to a woman's right to choose." But at a news conference following the NARAL luncheon, Giuliani came to Bush's defense, saying the president had moved the GOP toward being a "big tent party" that could accommodate both pro-life and pro-abortion positions. Kelli Conlin, the executive director of the New York chapter of NARAL, applauded Giuliani's views. She called the mayor "a great advocate for us," and said it was "unfortunate the leadership of the GOP has moved into a direction where they want to implant government control on the lives of women and on reproductive freedom." Although some of the state's top Republicans favor the availability of abortion - both Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki are supporters of abortion rights - their views on the issue are not shared by all in the New York GOP. "Rudy Giuliani is not the poster child for the Republican Party. His values are completely out-of-step with the views of the GOP," said Lori Hougen, spokesperson for the New York chapter of the National Right to Life. Hougen believes there is room for discussion in both political parties about partial-birth abortion and abortion in general. She also said that some of the views of the political leaders of New York are not what the population believes. "The way that our state is run does not reflect the views of the people of the state of New York." cnsnews.com