He was against abortion before he was for it. (Before he was against it again. Sort of.)

Now that Judiani has been rolled out, repackaging Rudy as a lovable, huggable family man -- albeit one who doesn't acknowledge the existence of his two children in his official bio -- it's on to the second prong of the Rudy Rehabilitation Project: abortion.

Rudy was briefly anti-abortion in his 1989 mayoral campaign.

Then, looking deep in his heart and realizing he'd never be mayor of New York City unless he chucked his anti-abortion views, he became pro-choice.

Now he wants to be president, and his position on abortion, particularly his previous opposition to the partial birth abortion ban is weighing him down.

So, he's updating his position. (And conservatives say Hillary in insincere.)

He chose an interview with the anti-abortion Sean Hannity, who is inexplicably besotted with the former mayor, to roll out his updated abortion position to a conservative audience. He told Hannity: "I hate it":

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against."

"I have a daughter now, "Giuliani told TV’s Phil Donahue. "I would give my personal advice, my religious and moral views…I would help her with taking care of the baby. But if the ultimate choice of the woman -- my daughter or any other woman -- would be that in this particular circumstance, to have an abortion, I'd support that. I'd give my daughter the money for it."

He also said in the interview:

I've said that I'll uphold a woman's right of choice, that I will fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others
can exercise, and that I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal.

This interview represented a shift from earlier in the same campaign where, according to the New York Times:

Early in the 1989 campaign, he told the city’s Conservative Party leaders he was
personally opposed to abortion and was for overturning Roe v. Wade, except in
cases of rape or incest. At the same time he said he opposed criminal penalties
and ultimately saw it as an issue of “personal morality.”

Later, when it became clear that this position wouldn't wash in ultraliberal New York City, he "clarified" his position -- a la the Phil Donahue interview -- to pander to voters.

He so zealously embraced his new position throughout his mayorality that, according the New York Times, he had convinced the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League of New York the he was pro-abortion rights. They remained neutral in the 1993 and 1997 mayoral races, and did so again when he briefly ran against Hillary Rodham Clinton
for United States in 2000 before dropping out of the race. That's right. They thought he was as reliably pro-abortion rights as Hillary Clinton.

Sean plays along with the game that Giuliani's flip-flop on partial birth abortion is being unfairly characterized, but it is not. In a 1999 interview on CNN when he was asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions, Giuliani said:

"No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing.”

Asked by Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” in 2000 if he supported President Bill Clinton’s veto of a law that would have banned the disputed abortion procedure, Mr. Giuliani said, “I would vote to preserve the option for women.” He added, “I think the better thing for America to do is to leave that choice to the woman, because it affects her probably more than anyone else.”

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