If anybody knows Rudy personally, could you please share this with him?
         Oh, if only Rudy were pro-life, he could become a serious contender in the race for the presidency.
         But nooooooo. He has to be stuck in the ‘60s when it comes to the most serious social issue of our generation.
         What is abortion?
         It’s the deliberate taking of a human life.
         Not a potential human life. A life.
         Don’t ask me. Look at a sonogram.
         Recently, the director of the Waco, Texas chapter of Planned Parenthood, looked at a sonogram of an abortion at her clinic, and she was so convulsed with the reality of abortion that she quit the field.
         Her name is Abby Johnson, and she even wrote a book on her departure, Unplanned.
         Meanwhile, Mayor Giuliani has made his mark on America’s biggest city. Thanks to him, people could safely walk the streets of New York City. Thanks to him, they could safely ride the subways. Thanks to him, blights like pornographic establishments could be contained in certain areas.
        He cleaned up much of the city and made it safe.
        And before he was mayor, he helped hamstring some of the organized crime figures. As an Italian-American, he was disgusted with how the largely Italian-American mob had given thief fellow countrymen a black eye.
        Giuliani gave organized crime a run for its money. He effectively used the laws, including the anti-racketeering RICO statutes, to shut down portions of the mob.
         When the story of the mob is told, probably two Americans did more than anybody else to curtail the activities of the Italian-American mafia---Bobby Kennedy and Rudy Giuliani. (But, of course, we must also New York prosecutor Thomas Dewey from the 1930s and 40s and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, who held critical public hearings, exposing the mob to the American public for the first time.)
         Rudy has a great record. Aren't we glad he was the mayor on 9/11?
         Giuliani has had presidential aspirations. Perhaps he still does.
         If you do, Rudy, consider one thing: you won’t get the nomination unless you’re solidly pro-life. It just won’t happen.
         So you have two choices. See the light on abortion. Or choose not to run.
         Even if you see the light, there still could be some left-over skeptics. Maybe. Maybe not. Reagan changed. He once signed a very liberal abortion law in California, but it bothered him to see the abuse. He became truly pro-life and never looked back.
         The pro-lifers are the foot soldiers very often in today’s politics---at least among conservatives. They are the ones who get excited and do the heavy lifting in politics.
         They are the ones who gladly go door to door with door-knob holders with information on the candidates.
         While they have been fooled many times, they are wary of the politicians who say what they think people want to hear.
         I remember Rudy saying in 2008, and this is a paraphrase: “Hey, I may be pro-choice, but at least I’ll appoint non-judicial activists to the courts.”
         That’s not good enough for the foot soldiers. So if he continues with that weak of a “pro-life” expression, he won’t fire up the base. He’d lose the nomination.
         Too many times, pro-lifers have been burned by Republicans who give lip-service to the pro-life cause, but in the end, they do little or nothing to help.
         Too many times, “pro-life Democrats” have disappointed the pro-lifers who helped get them elected. During the debates over Obamacare, the issue surrounding abortion was the make it/break it issue. I remember hearing the slogan during that time along these lines, “Show me a pro-life Democrat, and I’ll show you a Democrat.”
         Much of the battle over abortion centers over words. Choice. Fetal tissue. Product of conception. These are just words. What Abby Johnson saw was reality. That reality goes on daily in America, on average about 3,000-4,000 times a day.
         Despite a virtual media black out, there is a network of loving, caring pro-life centers, providing alternatives to women with crisis pregnancies. Abortion only complicates matters. It doesn’t solve them.
         Adoption is a much better option than abortion.
        Oh, that Rudy Giuliani, the man who made the streets of New York so safe, the man who knew how to deal with Islamic destruction at Ground Zero, the man who could be president, would realize that safety should reach even into the womb.
         Rudy, please see the light. It’s not too late. Reagan did, why can't you?