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But abortion is an issue with little room for compromise. People are either for it or against it. Produce people want a nearly unrestricted right to abortion. Pro-life people think abortion is immoral per se, though some would allow its use in cases of rape or incest.
For Wilder and Coleman and others in political races making abortion a high-profile issue inflames feelings among groups that have many members who are notoriously single-issue when it comes to elections.
In the minds of many political observers, neither Wilder or Coleman has much to gain from a protracted abortion debate that overshadows other issues relating to Virginia’s budget or roads or education of drug enforcement. Coleman already has the anti-abortion vote in his pocket and Wilder has the pro-choice vote. They have to reach out to that large body of voters whose feelings about abortion are more ambivalent and who will judge them on a myriad of issues and not just one.
After all, no member of the State Senate faces re-election until 1991 and that clearly means efforts to inject more state control of abortion as a result of the recent court ruling wjll fail. That’s because a Senate committee that deals with such matters is solidly pro-choice. With more court pronouncements on abortion
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