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...reverse the Supreme Court's ruling that flag burning is legal. But last week, after the Senate passed anti-flag-burning legislation as part of a plan for derailing any change in the Constitution, the White House reiterated its preference for an amendment but stopped short of threatening a veto. In late September Bush broke weeks of silence on the abortion issue by praising the "protection of human life" to a group of Catholic lawyers in Boston. But his Justice Department will not make oral arguments in any of the three abortion cases that will come before the Supreme Court...
...opposes federal funding of abortions for poor women who are victims of rape and incest but holds out hopes for a congressional compromise that would "avoid a veto on my part." He said he would "see if there is room for flexibility" when Senate and House negotiators work out a compromise version of a bill that now would allow such federal payments...
...will permit a bill outlawing flag burning to become law without his signature. "I don't think it's enough," Bush said, renewing his call for a constitutional amendment along the same lines but adding that he would not veto the legislation in the meantime...
Bush threatened in August to veto the bill if it contained the more liberal abortion language. Administration officials reiterated that threat yesterday...
...president's senior advisors would recommend a veto if Congress sent him a bill that would pay "for abortions in cases beyond when the life of the mother is endangered," said Alixe Glen, a White House spokesperson...