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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock New Special Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its recent ruling on abortion, has thrown a spitball of sorts to politicians in Virginia and across the nation.
The emotionally-charged issued poses both danger and opportunity for the two men running for governor in the state this year, L. Douglas Wilder and J. Marshall Coleman.
As fall approaches, their strategists will have to figure whether to make the abortion issue a major part of their campaigns or attempt to tamp it down as one that might put them in no-win situtations.
Since 1973 politicians on both sides of the abortion issue have been able to hide comfortably behind the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade edict that gave women a right to abortion under carefully prescribed conditions.
Now, while Roe v. Wade was not struck down, the court has tossed back to the states the right to put
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