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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13LET'S HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- G.O.P. political advisers, worried about the widespread
- dissatisfaction among Republican women about a possible rollback
- in abortion rights, have persuaded George Bush to further soften
- his statements on the issue. Private polls have charted
- increased concern among women since the Supreme Court upheld the
- government's right to deny federal funding to family-planning
- clinics that mention the abortion option. Then came the
- disclosure of "pro-life" comments by court nominee Clarence
- Thomas. Last week Bush emphasized that the party is a "big tent"
- with room for varied views, even though its platform essentially
- considers abortion to be murder. "What we're saying," cracks a
- Bush adviser, "is that our party tent is big enough to include
- murderers."
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