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...years later, as the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is marked this week, the antiabortion movement finds itself at a moment of both possibility and tension. Some think Bush has lived up to the promise of that early victory. "He's been a star," says Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, one of the House's leading abortion foes. But others say the President is in danger of squandering what they see as the biggest opportunity abortion opponents have had since Roe to severely restrict--maybe even ban--abortion. "He has tremendous political capital, and I wish...
...that view, she is also typical of her peers. While their parents may have reflexively worn the pro-choice or pro-life label, the children of the post-Roe generation have more nuanced views on the issue. As a group, they tend to be more conservative about it. In a poll published last fall by the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, 44% of 15-to 22-year-olds approved of placing some restrictions on abortion, while just 34% of those ages 27 to 59 did. Abortion-rights advocates are no more encouraged by their own data...
...breast cancer. (A replacement fact sheet suggests a possible link, though major studies turn up no evidence for one.) Last March the Administration made fetuses eligible for the Children's Health Insurance Program, keying off the antiabortion groups' strategy of establishing "fetal rights" as a way of eventually undermining Roe. And just three weeks ago, the State Department sent a cable to its Agency for International Development (AID) offices worldwide urging them to ensure that U.S. funds weren't going to groups that provide abortion services--and suggesting that the AID offices surf the websites of funded groups...
...broader goals, the antiabortion movement still can't make the political math work. The Senate has a Republican majority, but at least 53 Senators are on record as favoring Roe. And the public is not prepared to see it overturned. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 55% of respondents said they support a woman's right to have an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy...
Court rulings like that have raised the stakes in what promises to be the real test of Bush's antiabortion agenda: his Supreme Court nominations. What keeps Roe standing is the razor-thin five-vote majority that has stood by the decision. If Bush replaces anti-Roe Chief Justice William Rehnquist (rumored to be retiring this year) with another like him, it won't change the calculus, though abortion will still loom huge in confirmation hearings. But when it's Sandra Day O'Connor's turn to go or that of any of the others who have upheld Roe...