Where are the GOP candidates going on women's health policy?

Whatever your partisan leanings, and whatever your position on abortion, it's important to know where your next president stands on the women's health policy issues that will shape the future for your daughter, your granddaughter, your sister, yourself...

Today the Kaiser Family Foundation's "Daily Women's Health Policy" spotlighted the ongoing hullaballoo over GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's abortion stance. Click here for the lowdown.

Giulian's official position on abortion as a legal procedure, as posted on his campaign website, is this:
"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."

But this is the GOP, people, and we're still deep in an era in which the fundamentalist Christian constituency is the most powerful force in the party. Will they successfully re-make Rudy into the foe of legal abortion they want him to be? Or will Rudy successfully move the Republican Party back toward the moderate center? This tension makes for great political drama! But it also has far-reaching implications.

Your next president will be in a powerful position to protect or overturn the law of the land in Roe v. Wade - whether through Supreme Court and other appointments, through Congressional influenuence, or through other forms of administration advocacy. Keep it in mind.