Word: pro
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...said he is pro-life, but added he supports the distribution of RU-486--assuming it is safe--and is against the repeal of the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade...
...That's true of the gun control question, too. Now, I wonder, sitting on the edge of my bed, will Gore wallop Bush on Texas's concealed weapons law? The swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin are pretty pro-gun in their cultures. But they don't have anything like Texas's take-a-gun-to-church concealed weapons law that Bush signed. It's a winner but NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Gore blows it off to go back and talk about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground...
Bush has been the fairest of the candidates in dealing with the issue of abortion, which has been a major focus of this campaign. He has explicitly contradicted the idea that he would only appoint justices who are pro-life. He has promised that he will not use the abortion stance as a litmus test in appointing justices, while Gore has said that he will only appoint justices who support abortion. Gore voted pro-life through the 1980s, but since his vice presidential candidacy, he has refused the possibility of appointing a justice who maintains any beliefs but the most...
...election). Candidates should not be forced to conform to either of their platforms in order to have a chance in American politics. For all the differences that exist between Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, they think alike on many important issues: Both are pro-free trade, neither are isolationist and both favor more military spending...
...focusing debate on the very earliest weeks of pregnancy, mifepristone does force pro-lifers to refine their arguments. "It's a whole new ball game for people in this movement," says Judith Brown, president of the Virginia-based American Life League. She hopes to convince people that even though the fetal material being expelled doesn't look like a baby, it is still an unborn child. "We will have to personalize the egg," she says. By the time a woman misses a period, sees her doctor and confirms the pregnancy, opponents note, there are already distinct signs of life. "Brain...