She's trying to use abortion to tap into the partisan linkage. Hillary wants to nationalize this race. What Lazio wants to do is localize the race. So while Lazio continues to hammer Hillary on the carpetbagging issue, Clinton continues to paint her opponent with the widest of brushes as a right-wing extremist. Though Lazio voted for the Brady Bill, which requires local vendors to conduct a background check on anyone who wants to buy a handgun, Clinton has criticized Lazio for not supporting registration of all new handguns.
Abortion is a linchpin to that strategy.
A pair of recent polls, however, offer varying evidence as to just how important voters will find this issue. Well, that's unclear. The two polls offer strikingly different figures on how important an issue New Yorkers consider this to be. That stigma doesn't work if you're multiple-choice. The conclusion is that you're not rigid, you're not an ideologue.