Scrambling to deal with the effects his pro-choice position will have on the Iowa Republican primary, Rudy Giuliani promised at a Mason City campaign stop yesterday to greatly expand and improve the nation's adoption policies in order to reduce abortions.Mr. Giuliani said New York's adoption rate went up 133 percent after his eight years as mayor because of tax credits and programs such as adoption fairs and "Adoption Saturdays," which had judges come in on weekends just to help finalize adoptions. In the same time period, the number of abortions in the city dropped 16 percent.
"I would like to do that for America," he said. "I would like to see adoptions increase dramatically, and I would like to see women considering abortion have that option available to them."
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