Rudy's clarification causes even more confusion

Rudy Giuliani is conflicted on abortion. During his first run for mayor of NYC, he was pro-life and lost. Next time around he was pro-dead baby and won. Now Rudy is personally opposed to abortion but supports a woman’s right to choose to kill her baby – this from the “law and order” mayor. Rudy tries to split the abortion baby by saying that while he is against abortion but is pro-choice (huh?), he would only appoint “strict constructionist” judges to the Supreme Court which is really code speak to conservatives for overturning Roe V. Wade. He has also alluded to the several states’ role in setting abortion law as means to side-step the question. OK, I’m confused Rudy.

Now on CNN Rudy says, "Ultimately, it's a constitutional right, and therefore if it's a constitutional right, ultimately, even if you do it on a state by state basis, you have to make sure people are protected." Uh Oh we have a problem Rudy Giuliani. How does appointing strict constructionist to the Supreme Court overturn a “constitutional right”? I thought that might be what amendments to the constitution were for. Rudy’s foggy answers on abortion guarantee that he’ll spend the next 18 months trying to clarify the unclarifiable.

“Yes, yes I was against it before I was for it. Now while I’m personally against it, I’m in favor of you being for it in states where others favor it, and remain against it in states where other people may be against it as long as federal funding and the constitutional right protecting it are not infringed. And remember, I’ll appoint ‘strict constructionist’ to the Supreme Court – wink, wink.”

Abortion is not a constitutional right. It’s a figment of the Burger court and Harry Blackmun’s imagination. And that is why it has been controversial ever since. In 1973 five unelected dopes in robes passed legislation from the bench of the Supreme Court. Finding abortion to be legal on the grounds of, get this, not the life or death of the mother or baby but on the grounds of the privacy of the mother.

Prediction: Abortion will remain the bane of politicians until the Supreme Court overturns Roe and returns the issue to the state legislatures where it belongs and will sadly remain largely legal.