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- <text id=90TT0862>
- <title>
- Apr. 09, 1990: American Notes:Abortion
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 43
- American Notes
- ABORTION
- A Setback For Pro-Life
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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