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Though George Bush privately viewed last week's Supreme Court decision on abortion as a political reprieve, his sense of relief will be temporary. The ruling that merely dented the 1973 Roe v. Wade doctrine instead of demolishing it left the President squirming on a barbed-wire fence. His opponents will do all they can to keep him there...
True, the damage would have been more immediate if Roe v. Wade had been overturned, the outcome Bush nominally seeks. That would have outraged pro- choice voters, many of whom supported Bush in 1988 despite his desire to outlaw abortion in most cases. The ardent pro-life faction, an important part of Bush's core constituency, is also disgruntled. It complains that a court controlled by Reagan-Bush appointees has not done away with Roe. Caught between the two groups, Bush had to speak softly. Yes, he approved that part of the court's ruling that allows states to impose...
...problem for us." With Congress poised to pass an abortion-rights bill called the Freedom of Choice Act, that profile will remain high. The vulnerability, which Bill Clinton tried to exploit last week and which also could help Ross Perot, springs from the issue's new political math. When Roe v. Wade seemed to guarantee access to abortion, the pro-life side mustered most of the electoral passion. Though a minority in the country for decades, those adamantly opposed to abortion tended to base their ballot on that one issue more often than pro- choice partisans. Even then, abortion...
...voters are increasingly militant on the pro-choice side. Though Molinari's father, who held her House seat for 10 years, was pro-life, like a few other Republicans, she plans to vote for the Freedom of Choice Act, which would restore by legislative means the full intent of Roe v. Wade. It will not become law this year because its proponents cannot get the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush's veto. But the fight over it will keep abortion in the headlines...
...House or Congress. Though the game gets harder when the decisions come from the tight-lipped precincts of the Supreme Court, it was being played in earnest last week in an attempt to figure out one of the court's most unexpected rulings in years. Someone cobbled together a Roe-friendly majority that included three conservatives -- Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter...