Some of this is retread for Corner readers, but the campaign sent this out to “friends and allies” this afternoon:

Mayor Giuliani’s Position on Abortion
Rudy Giuliani supports reasonable restrictions on abortion such as parental notification with a judicial bypass and a ban on partial birth abortion – except when the life of the mother is at stake. He’s proud that adoptions increased 66% while abortions decreased over 16% in New York City when he was Mayor. But Rudy understands that this is a deeply personal moral dilemma, and people of good conscience can disagree respectfully. Ultimately he believes that it is a decision between a woman, her doctor, her family, and her God.
Mayor Giuliani’s Statement, April 4th, 2007
“As I have indicated before I will not seek to change current law as described in the Hyde Amendment.” The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funding of abortions except in cases involving rape, incest or where the life of the mother is at stake.
Mayor Giuliani
Press Availability, Columbia, SC
April 5th, 2007
MAYOR GIULIANI: What I said yesterday is what I’ve been saying throughout, I think in the last number of months publicly and privately for quite some time, which is I’m against abortion, I hate it, I wish there never was an abortion and I would council a woman have an adoption instead of an abortion but ultimately I believe an individual right and a woman can make that choice. I also, on public funding or funding of abortion said I would want to see it decided on a state by state basis. And what that means is I would leave the Hyde Amendment in place. It’s been the law now, 17, 18 years, it’s part of the constitutional balance that I talked about yesterday and the Hyde Amendment leaves the funding issue largely to the states. They have to decide how they’re going to do it. And same thing on the issue that you’re giving me now, which is I believe that the state should decide. And that’s largely my approach not only in the area of abortion but in the area of guns and other things. I think these things are best decided on a state by state basis and would have as limited a federal role as the law requires. (Mayor Giuliani, Press Availability, Columbia, SC, 4/5/2007)