Sen. Clinton seeks abortion common ground
ALBANY, NY, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told 1,000 abortion rights supporters that opposing sides of the issue should seek common ground.
The junior senator said in a speech Monday that she was a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, but she praised the influence of "religious and moral values" on delaying teenage girls from becoming sexually active, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
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NY Times, January 26, 2005 Bush Finds a Backer in Moynihan, Who's Not Talking By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 - As he pushes ahead with his proposal to remake Social Security by adding private investment accounts, President Bush has so far failed to attract any prominent Democratic supporters.
At least, no prominent Democrats who are still alive.
Instead, Mr. Bush is taking cover under the reputation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat who died nearly two years ago. Mr. Moynihan served as co-chairman of the commission Mr. Bush established in 2001 to recommend ways of establishing personal accounts, a fact the president and his aides mention almost every time they discuss the issue publicly.
"Much of my thinking has been colored by the work of the late Senator Moynihan and other members of the commission, who took a lot of time to take a look at this problem and who came up with some creative suggestions," Mr. Bush said to reporters last month in the Oval Office.
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Mr. Moynihan was an early and prominent advocate of creating private investment accounts in Social Security and was often closer to the Republican position on the issue than to the predominant Democratic view. More than almost any elected official in either party, he openly advocated benefit cuts to assure the retirement system's long-term solvency.
Neither party has ever been shy about citing examples where a high-ranking member of the other side might have crossed the ideological divide or taken a position at odds with a more recent partisan orthodoxy. Republicans love to cast John F. Kennedy as a proto-supply-sider who saw economic evil in high marginal tax rates. Democrats have often pointed to Vice President Dick Cheney's opposition, when Mr. Cheney was defense secretary in 1991, to a full-scale invasion of Iraq.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/politics/26moynihan.html
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