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Word: antiabortionists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep answering phone calls from volunteers who want to work with his wife Maria in the Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal. But pro-choice sentiment is frustrated as far as Virginia's gubernatorial race is concerned. The Republican candidate, former state attorney general Marshall Coleman, is a strict antiabortionist who says that if he wins, he will appoint only pro-lifers to health and children's services positions. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, is seeking to become the first black elected to govern a state, and will not risk alienating moderate voters. So he has been waffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Political Hot Spots | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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