It looks like Rudy Giuliani, who is not only pro-choice but vocally supported public funding for abortion as recently as this past Spring, might be trying to meet pro-life Republicans halfway.

Fred Barnes wrote in a new column for the Weekly Standard that he talked about the issue recently with Rudy, and whether the candidate could pledge to conservatives that he wouldn't put his pro-choice views into practice as the head of a largely anti-abortion party:

When I asked Giuliani last week about the elements of such a statement, he seemed receptive. Abortions declined in New York when he was mayor, and he suggested the same might happen nationally during a Giuliani presidency. And should Congress pass a bill repealing the Hyde amendment, he said he would veto it.

The Hyde amendment is a federal law that bars the use of federal funds for abortions.