Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What terrifies pro-life Republicans more than federal funding for abortion clinics at home and abroad? Apparently, the prospect of tussling with the President during an election year - or handing Al Gore ammunition for his presidential campaign...
...both sides of the issue, such a timeline raises the stakes for November 7: Congressional pro-life groups are banking on Bush, whose past comments on the subject indicate that he would probably reinstate the restrictions via executive order, while pro-choice advocates assume Gore would leave well enough alone and send the money...
...course, Tuesday's decision carries some risk for pro-life Republicans. However, they no doubt figured that holding up the budget on principle wasn't worth the political capital it would almost certainly cost them. It would, for instance, provide the perfect opening for Gore to once again bring up the likelihood that Bush - who has maintained a studiously vague stance on the abortion issue - would stock the Supreme Court with pro-life Justices...
...Laden believes Muslim countries should be ruled according to Islamic sharia law, thus pitting him against the pro-Western regimes all over the Middle East. U.S. support for these regimes and for Israel, as well as the presence of "infidel" American forces in Saudi Arabia, are the reasons he offers for his jihad against the U.S. Bin Laden wants to drive the U.S. out of Arab lands, overthrow the governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and destroy Israel...
...running away from it. Robb says he will not change his beliefs--he is pro-choice and pro-gun control--even if they are too liberal for a right-leaning state like Virginia. "I'm looking to win," said Robb last week, "but not for the wrong reasons or at all costs." This time around, he may be more battle weary than ready...