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...alone. Earlier this week, four Republican Congresswomen, all supporters of abortion-rights, met with President Bush to discuss the issue. They emerged from the meeting with a surprise. The President, they said, no longer rules out federal financing for abortions for poor women in the case of incest and rape. What a difference twelve months makes...
Abortion-rights activists may be winning over politicians and the public, but they still lack the muscle to override their most powerful opponent. Two weeks ago, George Bush vetoed a bill to permit Medicaid to pay for the abortions of the victims of rape or incest. Last week, by a count of 231 to 191, the House of Representatives fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn him. Bush then vetoed the District of Columbia's $3.4 billion annual budget because it includes Medicaid funds for abortion...
...President called his first veto agonizing; he supports the right to an abortion in cases of rape or incest. His second veto, which came as he was leaving town for Costa Rica, indicated how firmly he has decided to stand with the right-to-life movement: the D.C. budget he killed also contained $32 million for the Administration's drive to make Washington a showcase in the war on drugs...
George Bush says a woman should be able to get an abortion when she has been the victim of rape or incest. Yet the President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound...
...disputed provision would have permitted Medicaid abortions for women who are victims of rape or incest, and who "reported promptly" to authorities. It was part of a spending bill that now goes back to the House Appropriations Committee for revision...