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...have resigned, he moved his queen -- proud, powerful, the lion of the chessboard -- and retreated it to a corner where it cowered for protection behind three lowly pawns. As Jose Zalaquett, a top Chilean amateur player, put it, it was an almost physical retreat, a folding back into the fetal position, awaiting the final blow...
...painful. While his stance mollifies the moral conservatives whose support he must have in November, it offends moderates whose votes he would love to claim too. The House of Representatives gave him another headache by voting, 260 to 148, to overturn the Administration's ban on the use of fetal tissue obtained from planned abortions for medical research. The restriction had been imposed in response to pro-lifers' contention that use of such tissue increases the number of abortions. Bush promises a veto, which will almost certainly stick. His bona fides with his party's far-right wing will...
...highlight issues dear to conservatives. Fearful of mouthing Quayle's controversial line, Bush will instead continue to sound law-and-order themes in the wake of the Los Angeles riots and will appease conservatives by vetoing a measure this week that lifts a four-year ban on federal fetal-tissue research. While such stands may not please a majority of American voters, Bush is not playing to the majority anymore. "The Murphy Brown thing is a big winner for us with our base," said one Bush official, "and holding on to our base is what we're concentrating...
CELLS FROM THE HUMAN FETUS, HARVESTED FROM elective abortions, have shown promise as a source of therapy for many incurable diseases. But four years ago, the Reagan Administration banned the use of federal funds for fetal-cell research, arguing that the practice would legitimize abortion...
...voted overwhelmingly in favor of lifting the ban. But no one knows if the House will pass the measure with enough strength to override a sure veto from Bush. It is too close to call. Faced with that uncertainty, Bush last week proposed creating a bank to collect fetal tissue from ectopic pregnancies and spontaneous abortions for research. But researchers quickly responded that naturally aborted fetal cells are often damaged and thus unusable for therapy. Looking for some political leverage, Bush portrayed the vote as a loyalty test for Republicans...