After months of conflicting signals on abortion, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to offer a forthright affirmation of his support for abortion rights in public forums, television appearances and interviews in the coming days, despite the potential for bad consequences among some conservative voters already wary of his views, aides said yesterday....
Mr. Giuliani’s aides were concerned both because the responses [to his performance in the recent Republican "debate"] opened him up to a new round of criticism from abortion critics, who have never been happy with the prospect of a Republican presidential candidate who supports abortion rights, while threatening to undercut his image as a tough-talking iconoclast who does not equivocate on tough issues.
Indeed, "a tough-talking iconoclast who does not equivocate" on following his political strategists and their positioning advice.
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