“I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights,” Giuliani said.
Q: Would the day that Roe v. Wade is repealed be a good day for America?
GIULIANI: It would be OK to repeal. It would be OK also if a strict constructionist judge viewed it as precedent and I think a judge has to make that decision.
"Abortion is a very, very difficult issue of conscience for many, many people. In my case, I hate abortion. I would encourage someone to not take that option."
Rudy Giuliani has stated that he personally abhors abortion, even though he supports keeping a legal right to choose. 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 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.
Rudy Guiliani said that he is "seriously considering" a presidential run. Those who think that the 9/11 hero would be a formidable candidate are forgetting about the 9/10 Rudy. Meaning, this is a guy who is pro-choice on abortion, pro-gay rights and moved in with a gay couple after a messy breakup with his wife that came as he was dating another woman.
Source: 2008 Speculation by Howard Kurtz in Washington Post July 14, 2006
Source: 2008 Speculation by Howard Kurtz in Washington Post July 14, 2006
Q: Recently several talented linguists--Arabic speakers trained by the US government--were dismissed from the military because they announced they were gay. Is that appropriate?
A: This is not the time to deal with disruptive issues like this. Back in 1994 we went through this and it created a tremendous amount of disruption. In time of war, in a time where we're trying to deal with this transition to a new kind of warfare that we have to be fighting--and we haven't gotten all the way there yet, we need a hybrid army, we need to look at nation-building as part of what we have to teach our military--I don't think this would be the right time to raise these issues. And I think we should rely on the judgment of our commanders in a situation like this. They know what's disruptive and what's not. And at a time of war, you don't make fundamental changes like this.
Source: 2007 GOP debate at Saint Anselm College June 3, 2007
A: This is not the time to deal with disruptive issues like this. Back in 1994 we went through this and it created a tremendous amount of disruption. In time of war, in a time where we're trying to deal with this transition to a new kind of warfare that we have to be fighting--and we haven't gotten all the way there yet, we need a hybrid army, we need to look at nation-building as part of what we have to teach our military--I don't think this would be the right time to raise these issues. And I think we should rely on the judgment of our commanders in a situation like this. They know what's disruptive and what's not. And at a time of war, you don't make fundamental changes like this.
Source: 2007 GOP debate at Saint Anselm College June 3, 2007
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