Rudy Giuliani's Adoption Claims

Abortion Advocate Says Rudy Giuliani's Adoption Claims "Unsupportable"

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) --

Rudy Giuliani has tried hard to use his supposed advocacy of adoption as the mayor of New York to combat Republican opposition to his pro-abortion views as he campaigns for president. His pro-adoption claims have been refuted on previous occasions and now a leading abortion advocate says they are "unsupportable." Cory Richards is the senior vice president and vice president for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a research group affiliated with Planned Parenthood. Richards wrote an opinion column published in the Los Angeles Times on Monday saying that Giuliani's claims that his adoption advocacy resulted in a decrease in abortions in New York City can't be supported. Giuliani has said that, while he was mayor, New York City "increased adoption by 133% over the eight years before [he] came into office." Giuliani added that the city "found that abortions went down by 18% during that period of time" and that he believes such figures can be achieved nationwide. But Richards says the increase in adoptions Giuliani refers to is children in the city's foster care system and "not in the rate at which women were continuing unwanted pregnancies and placing their infants for adoption rather than having abortions." "Nothing in the data he cites indicates that there was any significant increase in the city's newborn relinquishment rate while he was mayor," Richards says. Read the complete story.