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...indoors at the official proceedings last week, as the Republican Platform Committee staged its hearing on social questions. Since 1980 the platform has taken a hard line against abortion and promoted the appointment of jurists who back that view. Now, with the Supreme Court poised to undermine or demolish Roe v. Wade, many Republicans want the party to moderate its stance. Stone, a direct-mail entrepreneur who has raised millions for conservative causes, is collecting money for pro-choice candidates...
...abortion. Ann Stone, who leads Republicans for Choice, thinks Bush must again become pro-choice -- a position Bush himself once held -- to prevent disgruntled moderate voters from casting their lot with the pro- choice Perot. Stone also fears an anti-Republican backlash should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1974 decision that guaranteed abortion rights...
...have waved pictures of the developing fetus, there were no more new images of women victimized by illegal abortions. In the years to come, those pictures, and the desolate realities they represent, are sure to reappear. It was harsh experience that led to the climate of opinion that welcomed Roe. Will it take harsh experience again to sort out the national will on abortion once...
...harbinger on an entirely different front: the growing strength of the abortion-rights issue -- particularly when there is a female pro-choice candidate championing the cause. Until now, pro-life voters have been more likely than pro-choice supporters to judge candidates solely on the abortion issue. With Roe in jeopardy, that may be changing. Shortly after Braun's victory, her conservative Republican opponent, Richard Williamson, reversed his long-standing opposition to abortion...
...result, Republican women are feeling disaffected. "As we get closer to the demise of Roe, frustration is intensifying," says Republican political consultant Eileen Padberg. Of the more than 50 Republican women who are running for congressional and state offices this year, more than 75% are abortion-rights advocates. In tough primary races against antiabortion opponents, many have made abortion the central theme of their campaigns...