From a guest post on Dawn Eden’s site by By Henrietta G. Tavish.
NEW YORK, May 10 — Having previously declared that he "hates" abortion, Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani yesterday expressed an equal hatred of donating to Planned Parenthood. The statement was prompted by the revelation that the former New York City mayor and his then-wife made at least six contributions to the nation’s largest abortion provider in the 1990’s.
"Abortion is the unjustified taking of a human life," said Giuliani. "I hate the practice, and I hate when the government funds it — but what I hate most of all is when I voluntarily send money to organizations that perform it despite the fact that I am under no obligation whatsoever to do so."
Giuliani explained that he was personally opposed to his contributions but made them as a matter of conscience. "I cannot impose my morality upon anyone, including myself," he said. He added that if elected president there would be nothing he would hate more than appointing pro-abortion judges to the Supreme Court.
Res Publica et Cetera wonders:
I wonder whether this will have a negative effect on the number of pro-life conservatives saying that they will vote for him should he win the nomination.
It seems to me if a pro-lifer could justify supporting Rudy in the first place they will not likely be deterred by facts. This is a campaign that should have had a fork in it from the day it was announced. Catholics on both sides of the political fence find ways to justify just about anything. One side shouts "Common Good" and the other "War on Terror", but both lead to supporting Culture of Death politicians.
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I can’t impose my morality upon anyone, including myself????? WHAT!? If that isn’t the epitomy of relativism, I don’t know what it. It actually even contradicts relativism, placing Giuliani into…a philosophy of chaos.
That quote caught my eye too, Julie. It’s incoherent even for a politician—my reaction was that it doesn’t make enough sense to qualify as a philosophy of anything (although chaos is probably the best philosophical choice :-)).
It sounds, in short, like an all-too-familiar approach to politics…
Peace,
–Peter
I think the quote not an actual quote of Rudy, but rather satire based on the contradiction between what he’s saying now and what he actually did before running for president. Maybe Henrietta needs to learn to put “Roto Reuters” in the dateline.
That’s good satire! I was rolling about that “even myself” line. 🙂
Henrietta G. Tavish is an anagram for “Satire hath given’t.” Whether that’s actually meaningful is another story. 😉
Dick Gephardt, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Joe Lieberman all were once (allegedly) staunch pro-lifers until they set their sights on the deathocrat nomination for president or vice president (Lieberman). One of the things I find most loathsome about the deathocrats is their sheer political opportunism. Rudy is just a trimmed down Ted Kennedy in Republican garb.
Uh, how is protecting people all over the world from barbarians AGAINST THE CULTURE OF LIFE?
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