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Bush got the pro-life vote in 2000, and judging from recent rhetoric from Catholic leaders and newspapers, he's likely to get it again in 2004. It's too bad that Bush only pretends to be pro-life. |
Too bad folks cant do any homework on anything more important than movie reviews and the latest fashions.
[Edit to add this] This is the meat of it:
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Bush's partial-birth abortion ban has been overturned by the courts. This is great news for Bush's election team, because it means he can still campaign on the abortion issue (as there's still "work to be done") without actually having done anything pro-life. Supposedly pro-life Republicans have held the presidency for 20 of the 31 years of Roe v. Wade, and nothing's happened. If Roe v. Wade were ever overturned, Republicans wouldn't have anything left to campaign on. It is to the Republicans' political advantage to perpetuate Roe v. Wade. Of course, the vast majority of Republicans at the state and especially local level are well-meaning, but I don't believe that to be the case at the national level, especially the higher echelon.
More importantly, the partial-birth abortion ban codified into U.S. law for the first time that all forms of abortion except partial birth abortion are to be legal. |