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# Pro-Life Giuliani
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1122/
- Published: 2005-05-24T16:02:04.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-24T16:02:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Neocon John Podhoretz has a bad tasting op-ed in the *New York Post* this morning about Giuliani's need to become pro-life in order to become president. [Link](http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/47054.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpts:

> Ronald Reagan, whose 1980 victory cemented the move of evangelical Christians from the Democratic to the Republican Party because of his pro-life stand, had quite a spotty record on the matter. As governor of California, he had signed legislation into law expanding access to abortion (before the passage of *Roe v. Wade*).

> Later, however, Reagan said he was sorry he had done so. That was evidently enough for him to earn the enthusiastic backing of anti-abortion zealots from Jerry Falwell to Pat Robertson.

> George Bush the Elder ran as an openly pro-choice candidate in 1980, and had his clock cleaned by Reagan. After working assiduously as vice president to make nice with the religious right, he emerged in 1987 as a pro-life lion - an ideological and religious conversion that was especially pleasing to antiabortion organizations because they understood he was doing it to curry favor with them.

> In 1996, Steve Forbes ran for president on a flat-tax platform and did unexpectedly well. But he came to understand that his pro-choice views - which were quite vociferous - might hamper him in a genuinely serious bid to capture his party's nomination. He spent three years following Bush the Elder's example. He simply changed his opinion, and became a loud critic of partial-birth abortion especially.

> By 1999, Forbes was actually favored by a bunch of pro-life activists, and was considered by the Bush campaign to be Bush's most potent rival.

> The record is plain. A pro-choice candidate can win in the GOP provided he has a change of heart and goes pro-life. The change of heart does not even need to be all that believable. It just needs to be.