The Los Angeles Times and USA Today on Thursday examined how the abortion views of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) could affect their chances for winning the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination. Summaries appear below.
Los Angeles Times: Romney's "rightward shift in abortion" rights will be a major challenge in his campaign, the Times reports. Although Romney has said that he supports overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that effectively barred state abortion bans, during his Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign in 2002 he pledged to "protect a woman's right to choose," according to the Times. Romney's "ideological swerve" could raise doubts about whether he shares the core values, including opposition to abortion rights, held by many conservative evangelicals, who "dominate" the Republican primary elections, the Times reports (Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 2/1).
USA Today: Although Giuliani in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll had more voter support than other candidates for the Republican nomination, his support of abortion rights and other social issues could cause him to lose the Republican nomination, USA Today reports. According to USA Today, one in five Republicans who participated in the poll said they did not know that Giuliani supports abortion rights and same-sex civil unions. When told about Giuliani's views on such issues, one in five Republican respondents said that would "rule him out as a candidate" (Page, USA Today, 2/1).
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