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- <title>
- July 22, 1991: Let's Have It Both Ways
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Let's Have It Both Ways
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- <p> 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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- </body></article>
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