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During his failed 1980 presidential campaign, Bush said unequivocally that he supported a woman's right to an abortion. When he joined the Reagan team, he took on the campaign's position, and he has been a more or less ardent pro-lifer ever since...
SEPARATED BY A BROAD AVENUE AND A SCORE OF broad-shouldered Salt Lake City cops, two knots of demonstrators debated the abortion issue with chants and placards. THE TIME TO CHOOSE IS BEFORE BEDTIME, advised a pro-lifer sign. PARTY PLATFORM: OUT OF BOARDROOMS, INTO WOMEN'S WOMBS took the originality prize among the pro-choicers. Ann Stone, a conservative who usually supports the President, elicited smiles on both sides of West Temple Street when she cracked, "George Bush knows there are pro-choice Republicans; he's married...
...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...