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- NATION, Page 43American NotesABORTIONA Setback For Pro-Life
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- It was the nation's most restrictive abortion law. Passed
- two weeks ago by the Idaho senate, the bill would have outlawed
- virtually all abortions. Pro-choice groups threatened to
- boycott Idaho potatoes if the bill became law. The Washington
- headquarters of the National Organization for Women received
- spuds inscribed by pro-lifers: "Please take care of me. I am
- an aborted Idaho potato."
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- Governor Cecil Andrus, who is personally opposed to
- abortion, vetoed the bill late last week because it "was drawn
- so narrowly" and would "harm" Idaho women who became pregnant
- through rape or incest. Pro-life forces who had hoped the law
- would help persuade the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade
- and ban abortion altogether will have to start over in another
- state.
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