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...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...
...Illinois paralegal unseated a seven-term incumbent for the G.O.P. nomination to a statehouse seat -- by the toss of a coin. Mulligan, an abortion advocate, and pro-lifer Penny Pullen tied in the March primary. A court ordered the coin flip. Mulligan chose tails. Pullen is appealing...
...nominee pushed by conservative White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and approved by pro-lifer Bush is unlikely to be pro-choice. But neither Souter nor Bush has chosen to disclose the nominee's opinion on Roe v. Wade, Bush dismissing the issue as unimportant to confirmation...
...movement brooks no exception to the absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions for rape and incest...