Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have." In Atlanta, he told reporters, "My position is like Ronald Reagan's. Put that down." Reporters, however, quickly turned up 1980 newspaper clippings and TV footage showing that Bush had supported federal funding for abortions in case of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother, and had opposed an antiabortion amendment. "I don't recall it as being my posi tion then," Bush said about this evidence. Didn't that damage his credibility? "No," he replied. "There's an awful lot of things I don't remember...
...moral preachings of the Roman Catholic Church; it dates back to the 1st century. The destruction of the fetus, the church teaches, is a morally indefensible attack on human life. The only exception is "indirect abortion," or abortion as an incidental byproduct of a necessary attempt to save the mother's life. Ectopic pregnancy and cancer of the uterus are grounds for indirect abortion. Rape and incest are not exceptions, because the fetus conceived has the same right to life as any other fetus...
Danny Bass, a Tennessee construction worker, was 20 years old in 1978 when he married Mary Ann Garton, then 37. Bass had been put up for adoption when he was three, and except for a brief encounter in his early teens, he never saw his mother again. Then, after three months of married life, Mary Ann Bass casually informed Bass that she was his mother. As Danny's lawyer, Doug Jackson, put it, "That really set him back a notch...
Bass ran off and joined the Army for four years, but his mother persisted in her efforts to lure him back. Says Jackson: "He has letters from her in which she says she loves him like no other girl." Last week in Charlotte, - Tenn., the attorney general's office brought charges of felonious criminal incest against Mrs. Bass, who pleaded innocent. If convicted, she could face up to 21 years in jail. Danny now says that all he wants is a new life and a new wife. One closer...
...there who didn't know him would say, 'Who's that megalomaniac who thinks he's Louis XIV?' " observes his favorite model and close friend, Ines de la Fressange. "But it's a place that he really loves and where his mother lived until she died. It's a place he really feels happy...