When the Supreme Court decided last week to review a Pennsylvania law that restricts abortion, it all but guaranteed that the long-simmering issue would come to a boil again just before the Republican Convention gets under way in Houston in August. The day after the court took the case, the streets of Washington offered a symbolic preview of the fight to come. To mark the 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that made abortion a federally protected right, pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators squared off in photo-op warfare.
The latest flare-up was the last thing George Bush needed in...
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