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Rudy Giuliani has said in his campaign speeches that he abhors abortion even though he believes that the right to choose should be kept legal.
The Politico says dear Rudy was not always this way when it came to family planning and abortion rights groups, such as Planned Parenthood.
...But records show that in the '90s he contributed money at least six times to Planned Parenthood, one of the country's leading abortion rights groups and its top provider of abortions.
Federal tax returns made public by the former New York mayor show that he and his then-wife, Donna Hanover, made personal donations to national, state and city chapters of Planned Parenthood totaling $900 in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999.
The returns have been on the public record for years, but the detail about Giuliani's support for Planned Parenthood -- along with e-mailed copies of the returns -- was provided to The Politico by aides to a rival campaign, who insisted on not being identified.
Provided by a rival campaign? I wonder which one that would have been?
On the campaign trail, Giuliani has a consistent mantra when the abortion issue comes up. "I'm against abortion. I hate it. I wish there never was an abortion, and I would counsel a woman to have an adoption instead of an abortion," Giuliani said last month in Columbia, S.C., in a typical comment.
Told of Giuliani's contributions to Planned Parenthood, Clemson University political science professor Dave Woodard said, "If he actually gave money to Planned Parenthood, boy, that puts him in a very precarious position, at least in the South Carolina Republican Party."
A Republican, Woodard noted that a personal contribution is something that is difficult to explain away to abortion opponents. "This isn't something like where your position is misunderstood," he said. "An overt act of giving money shows support for a position. That can't be a mistake or misinterpretation."
I think that Rudy is now toast with the fundamentalist.
You can read the whole story HERE.
If the Democrats and Giuliani's rivals continue to bring this up, then I think that his chance of a presidential nomination are toast since this would pretty much make the social conservatives not want to back him.
It is pretty funny with the Republicans and this election. You have John McCain ( wash-up ) as a choice and then you have Rudy Giuliani ( wannabe ) as a choice. That other character isn't worth the waste of time. McCain and Giuliani are both seeking the crown that Bush wears for the time being and they both wish to be like Bush, so they can't win no matter who the Democrats place in the running. That's provided the Dems don't screw up between now and November 2008.
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