He very oddly didn’t mention Roe at all. Rudy could have made some real headway by making the case that he may not be pro-life, but that he believes that Roe was wrongly decided. That is consistent with his themes today; he would never allow federal funding of abortion, he would appoint judges who would agree with his reading of Roe because it would be consistent with their shared philosophy, and he would have the states decide post-Roe. That would essentially be the Fred Thompson position, and that would be noticed.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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