It's an agreement between anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights lawmakers that is so delicate it could balance on a pin.
Moral conservatives on the right of the party have savaged pro-abortion-rights candidates in primary battles, sometimes even resorting to lawsuits.
And I come to that conclusion not because I'm pro-abortion but because ultimately, I don't think women make these decisions casually.
"There is a large pro-abortion majority in Parliament which will ensure that any time-limiting amendments are rejected while using the opportunity to push for pro-abortion amendments, " he said.
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Celinda Lake, a pollster for Emily's List (a group that campaigns for more pro-abortion Democratic women candidates) and the Gore campaign, has looked at the other end of the demographic divide to find the Reagan Seniors.
Two things: one, only when he would take positions being -trying to be pro-gay rights and pro-abortion, you know, and while he was a leader of the church here, he was taking - acting in a very different way.
Rightists oppose him as pro-abortion rights.
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The anti-gun, abortion-rights liberal Democratic leadership does not naturally gibe with the many pro-gun, anti-abortion union members.
Fitzgerald won the Republican primary against state Comptroller Loleta Didrickson despite last-minute appeals from Republican moderates who said that nominating a pro-gun, anti-abortion conservative could ruin any chances of defeating Moseley-Braun.
With the Irish government hoping to have its proposed bill made law by the Dail (Irish parliament) summer break in July, both pro-choice and anti-abortion campaigners are getting ready for a battle lasting several months.
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Casey, the state treasurer, is a pro-gun rights, anti-abortion Democrat whose family name carries weight in Pennsylvania politics.
Like his potential primary opponent, Hodge is also pro-life on abortion.
He also personally addressed an inquiry by e-mail from Nancy Keenan, the president of a pro-choice foundation who was writing in response to a controversy over Siri directing abortion questions to pro-life clinics.
While anti-abortion campaigners say the proposed legislation would make abortion too easy, pro-choice proponents say it will still be too difficult for women to access the procedure.
It will also allow him to spend his time wooing liberal voters in the north-east rather than fending off attacks from hard-line Republicans in the heartland who loathe his pro-choice views on abortion.
He became a leader on public-housing reform, voted for gay and lesbian domestic-partner health benefits and executed a complicated straddle on abortion--nominally pro-choice but against federal funding and late-term abortions.
He is evangelical, anti-abortion and pro-gun, but manages to be all those things without appearing as abrasive as Mrs Palin.
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Last summer the health department decreed that all new health-insurance policies should cover birth-control services for women, including the morning-after pill (which most pro-lifers consider a form of abortion) and sterilisation.
Also announcing support for Sotomayor is the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America.
In 1997, according to the Feminist Majority Foundation, a pro-choice group, almost a quarter of America's 900-odd abortion clinics reported attacks.
Pro-choice campaigners say they could be faith-based groups morally opposed to abortion, who will seek to persuade women that going ahead with one would be a sin.
Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.
The reason so many GOPers are anti-abortion is because so many pro-choice Republicans just left, a few at a time.
For example, a person who feels strongly against abortion can designate the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation as the recipient of the money if he or she does not meet a personal goal.
Giuliani came to his pro-choice position in 1989, as a candidate for mayor of a city that presumes an abortion-rights position in its politicians.
Republican National Convention that the anti-abortion forces actually prevented two prominent pro-choice Republican governors, Pete Wilson of CA and George Pataki of NY from speaking.
Mr Romney struggled in particular with the conservative base, who had misgivings about his inconsistent record. (His Mormonism, which is considered heretical by many evangelical Christians, may also have put off some religious voters.) Right-wing pundits dwelt on the fact that he had run for the Senate, and for governor of Massachusetts, promising not to limit access to abortion but now claimed to be vehemently pro-life.
The many pro-choice Republicans were already sick of the arrangement with the anti-abortion movement.
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