Can someone be pro-choice but against abortion?

Im just trying to figure out where Rudy Giuliani is coming from on the issues.

Public Comments

1. Sure, most Americans are.
2. Nope. That's just a spin from the "pro-choice" crowd. There are two views on the issue: 1. You think abortion is murder 2. You don't think abortion is murder. If you think abortion is murder, and should be illegal, than you are pro-life. If you think abortion is murder, but still want to let women get them (which is the stance you described), then you are a sick, sick individual. However, if you think abortion is not murder, and want to let women get them, you are pro-choice. If America was "pro-choice" in 1860, we would still have slaves.
3. What do you mean?
4. not really. against abortion means your for life...prolife.
5. About 65% of Americans feel this way.
6. You can have personally decided that you would never have an abortion, but believe that other people are entitled to make their own choices. That would make you against abortion for yourself but pro-choice.
7. Such an opinion constitutes the vast majority of American opinion. Were not as politically marginalized as the politicians. Rudy Giulliani is mostly a Clinton on abortion. He hates it with a passion, but he hates oppressing a woman's right to make her own decisions even more.
8. Yes. A person who has bought into the liberal choice rhetoric, but still believes abortion is murder, can be pro-choice but against abortion. Rudy is not a Conservative. End of story.
9. Yes, I do. I am against abortion, but I don't think the government should have a say in what a women want to do with their bodies. I personally feel the government medals with our private lives enough already.
10. They believe Americans have the right to choose, but they themselves do not want to.
11. I believe someone can be pro-choice but against abortion. That is the way I see things actually. I believe that no one can tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body. There are also different circumstances with different situations. Personally, I wouldn't have an abortion, but who am I to tell a complete stranger in another state whom I've never met nor know her situation that she cannot have an abortion? I don't think the government is right when it comes to this issue. They just need to let women make their own decisions.
12. Pro-choice doesn't mean pro-abortion. A pro choice person can try to keep the number of abortions down by making sure that birth control is cheap and available, and making sure that people know how to use it.
13. A person can dislike abortion, but still support a woman's right to choose.
14. I believe that a woman has the right to choose what to do with her body, but I truly believe that that choice ends at the end of the first trimester. After then you are deciding for another person.
15. Sure. I know people who are. It is a question of understanding that abortion is a protected right and should remain so while the person would not choose abortion for themselves.
16. Most people who say they are pro-choice also say they are personally against abortion for themselves or their family. Giuliani is one of them.
17. I'm personally against abortion. However, I AM pro-choice. Abortion is a moral decision, and a medical one. It's not suppose to be a legal decision. Whether one has an abortion or not should be up to them, the medical professionals caring for them, and the God of their choice. While I could never have an abortion, I certainly don't want some right wing over the edge conservative "do-gooder" telling me I can't. That's just way too much big brother for my taste.
18. Fascinating how two faced some people are. With one side of their mouth, they proclaim this to be a "right" (it never was) but then add that it should be "rare" or that they actually do not favor it. Cowards.
19. I am. I think it's immoral, but I can't see how the government can legally prevent a woman from terminating a pregnancy. I would hope any viable fetus would be taken out alive, not killed in the womb. That has nothing to do with the woman's body. I'm not sure about Guiliani. He may have a very well thought-out view, or he may just be playing politics. He will be asked a lot about it - so we will find out more.
20. If someone is strongly against abortion they are against choice. Whether or or not you believe in abortion should be a individual choice. Anti- abortion people want the choice taken away from those that beleive in abortion. I don't believe in abortion but I don't feel comfortable forcing my believes on others. Everyone should have their own choice about all life issues. If we make all things illegal that Religion says are wrong we would not need to make choices. That is not how God meant for it to be where no one had any choices. We can all choose the right way to do things.
21. I'm not aware of anyone who is pro-choice who thinks that abortion is a good idea. It's a terrible decision a woman has to make, and I'm glad I will never have to make it.
22. I believe so. The opposite of pro-choice is to force the desperate back into the back alleys with coat hangers, since there will always be those desperate enough to do that. For most women who choose to have an abortion, it is a very hard choice that will haunt them all their life, and they only so choose because the alternative is worse.
23. Rudy is like McCain, he is all over the place on the issues. Rudy also is for gay marriage but against it.
24. It's called "straddling the fence". It is equivalent to the Dems authorizing the funding of the Iraq war, but drafting a do-nothing resolution condemning the same war. What it means is: "Regardless of what I believe is right, I am too afraid of the political consequences of acting on my belief, because it may not advance my political ambitions." Please note that Giuliani's stance is the same many other politicians have taken.
25. Yes. There are a million abortions per year. The entire population is only 300 million, of which 160 million are female, of which 90 million are of an age where you could possibly need an abortion, of which 50 million are of an age where pregnancy is a probably result of intercourse, of which 25 million are screwing on a regular basis. A million abortions seems high. I don't think the government can step in before the first trimester is up - and there are arguments for the second trimester. And 90% of abortions are 1st trimester abortions. But you have to wonder WTF is going on with a million of them being performed every year - great strides have been made in birth control over the course of a generation yet the number of abortions doesn't decline. People say "nobody wants an abortion" and people say they want abortion to be "safe, legal and rare" but somebody forgot about the "rare" part of that equation. I don't know what to do about it - because of HIPAA we don't even really know what's going on, who these people are, is it the same 5-10 million women getting 3-4 abortions over the course of their lives, is it that 40 million women have had an abortion, is it that the same 3-4 million women get abortions every couple of years? I'm unaware of any good data on that.
26. Certainly. Yes one can choose for oneself without demanding the right to make the choice for half the population. If it is not right for all then it is not right for only half. Half the population should not have their bodies politicized. That is wrong. Therefore any thinking and reasoning person would allow all other persons the same choice they allow themselves, the choice of whether they agree that their own body should be or should not be given an abortion - or in the case of males, whether or not they agree with their female sex partner to passively or actively choose the possibility of not only conception but parenting a child together for the rest of your lives.
27. he's changing his mind- which is an individual's right but sine its just so happens that he changed his mind right around the time he started his campaign I think he has alterior motives. this is why I'm angry with his new stance
28. John Kerry was pro-choice but he claimed to be against abortion he said it in one of his debates with Bush when they were running for President.... He said words to the effect, "I won't let my personal beliefs get in the way of a woman's right to choose... etc....etc...."