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...Democrats (and Republicans as well) should be able to agree that birth control, and abortion, are life-style choices and thus outside the field of government control and funding...
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...Anyone can go through the newspaper and magazine files and the taped programmes, count the number of anti-Catholic statements and innuendos, and search for anti-Protestant counterparts . . . . The anti-Catholicism was depressing because of the long, sad history of that disease in Ireland...
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...Each voter has the responsibility of weighing the moral consequences of his or her vote and of making a conscientious decision in the privacy of the polling b o o t h . . . "It must not be suggested or implied that all of those who oppose the amendment are in favor of abortion...
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