Word: lifer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights have won primary battles that could portend problems for antiabortion Republicans. In Houston, for example, congressional candidate Dolly Madison McKenna defeated antiabortion opponent Esther Lee Yao although Yao outspent her several times over. In Illinois' Republican primary, state representative Penny Pullen, an antiabortionist and disciple of right-to-lifer Phyllis Schlafly, was defeated by abortion-rights advocate Rosemary Mulligan...
Bush has shown yet again that he has no backbone or true conviction. In recent months he has been an ardent pro-lifer, responding in part to the harsh attacks mounted by his ultra-conservative challenger, Patrick Buchanan. He has supported the movement that is gaining steam throughout the country to reverse Roe v. Wade...
...Tyson could shrug off his athlete's notoriety with the same speed, he might pacifically endure his stir time. Can this happen? The odds are long. In jail he runs a risk of being the brutalized victim, under no laws but those of survival and silence. There, some stark lifer with nothing to lose may be the fighter of Tyson's nightmares. If any crime is more underreported than date rape, it is prison rape...
...wasn't for Rockefeller, so it wasn't for Bush. Unlike Rocky, though, Bush finally got the message. To join Ronald Reagan's 1980 ticket, the man who had supported Planned Parenthood and a host of liberal domestic positions anathema to the right reinvented himself as a "reformed" pro-lifer and social-policy conservative...
Speaking by phone last week to an outdoor rally of pro-life activists in Washington, Bush repeated his devotion to the "precious gift" of life. The same day, the Republican Party announced that Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a strong pro-lifer, would serve as chairman of the G.O.P. platform committee. But while Nickles is trusted by party conservatives, he enjoys a reputation as a compromiser, a quality Bush badly wants in his platform chief. White House moderates are still hoping to include wording in the platform's preamble that would make it clear that the G.O.P. is "nonexclusionary...