100% Friday, September 25, 1992 9 CAMPAIGN'92 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Candidates waver on abortion The Associated Press WASHINGTON — George Bush and Dan Quanley support an abortion ban — but now, it seems, with some loopholes. Bill Clinton and Al Gore stress abortion rights — but may with restrictions. Republicans and Democrats, coming from very different basic positions, are aiming their appeals at similar voters: those who have mixed feelings. "For us, it is suburban, well-educated, prosperous women who are not happy with the pro-life portion of the Republican Party," said a top GOP official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "For the Democrats, it is the Catholic or Southern conservatives who ... disagree with the party's absolute pro-choice position." The Republican convention produced a party platform that called for a ban on abortion as an amendment to the Constitution. The Democrats supported a national law guaranteeing a woman's right to choose. Those documents made the choice very clear. Perhaps too stark for many people's tastes. Bush, Quayle and Barbara Bush made television appearances distancing themselves from the platform's hard-line, anti-abortion position. In an interview on NBC television last month, Bush was asked what he would do if his granddaughter came to him and said she were pregnant and wanted an abortion. "I'd stand by her," he said. So, he was asked, the choice would be hers? "Well, who else's could it be?" Bush responded. Some of the president's campaign literature now says simply that he favors reasonable restrictions on abortion. Quayle offered Wednesday that abortion was not an issue with the U.S.people. A day later, Mariyn Quayle, the vice president's wife and an opponent to abortion, said she did not believe in a universal ban. Pregnancy from incest is one case where abortion might be acceptable, she said. David Beckwith, the vice president's representative, said the Quayles' position always had been to make exceptions for cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother's life. "The media is trying to make an inconsistency where no inconsistency has occurred," he said. "The platform is a human-rights amendment, and that could be the mere repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would put it back in the states and put it back in the political system," Beckwith said. Clinton has embraced the prochoice elements of his party, including codification of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide. "We can be pro-family and prochoice," he said to rousing applause at campaign stops. But Clinton's record suggests he is far from militant in his support for abortion rights, and the campaign seems happy to live with that duality. As governor of Arkansas he signed a bill requiring parental notice if a minor sought an abortion, and he opposed state subsidies so poor women could get abortions. As a presidential candidate, he has opposed a federal notification law and would allow public financing of abortion as part of his universal health-care plan. Sen. Al Gore, his running mate, also has opposed federal abortion financing in the past. Clinton's support of state, instead of federal, decision-making on abortion restrictions sounds a little like Quaile's. "His position is clearly pro-choice, but he's clearly uncomfortable with abortion," said Stan Greenberg, Clinton's pollster. Poll shows Clinton leading Bush among women, and at least part of that difference can be attributed to the abortion issue. The gender gap was evident in a USA Today.CNN-Gallup poll released last week. While the race was a virtual tie among men, Clinton's lead among women was 54 percent to 38 percent. Activists on both sides insist abortion is a key electoral issue, but polls suggest a more limited impact. In one survey, just 10 percent of registered voters considered abortion so important that it would determine which presidential candidate they voted for. And only a fraction of those would be undecided. Captain Ron RG13(*4.35)7:90.39 Mr. Saturday Night R (*4.50)7:15.93 Husbands & Wives R (*4.45)7:05.92 School Ties PG13(*4.30)7:09.30 Innocent Blood PG13(*4.50)7:25.94 Honeymom in Vegas PG13(*5.00) 7:10-19 5 featuring members from the Specials and English Beat Clinton outlines health-care program The Associated Press Clinton's focus on health care is part RAHWAY, N.J. — Bill Clinton promised yesterday to press for a rational health-care system for allcitizens, including those with tax credits for small businesses called Clinton's plan too expensive for average citizens. Clinton said that President Bush's tax-credit plan was designed merely to cure political ills rather than curb health-care expenditures, which he said had increased from $250 billion in 1980 to $800 billion. Iran-Contra operative Richard Secord, meanwhile, disputed Bush's assertion that he didn't know about the Reagan White House's arms-for-hostages deals with Iran. Bush's claims are "simply not the case," Second said in remarks aired on ABC News' "Nightline." "This is a matter that is critical for the future of this country's survival," the Democratic nominee told a crowd outside a New Jersey pharmaceutical company. "His plan would place a tax on every working American that they cannot afford," said Alixie Glen, Bush campaign representative. "It would reduce the quality of care that we enjoy in this country and would ration care for most Americans." "Do not let these 40 days go by without making a decision that you as an American voter will insist and demand that this problem be solved in not another 10 years but next year," the Arkansas governor said. "That is a major, major, major factor in what you must determine the outcome of this election." Clinton also chided Bush anew for not agreeing to debates but with a new twist, suggesting Bush was afraid to face new questions about his role in the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra scandal. “It’s time for George Bush to come clean with the American people. Time after time,” Clinton representative George Stephanopoulos said. “What did Bush know, and when did he know it? Why won't he tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” Clinton highlighted health care as he campaigned in New Jersey and New York while Bush took a day off at Camp David before a busy campaign weekend. But the Bush campaign of the Democratic candidate's effort to compare his domestic program with what he calls Bush's record of neglect. Standing outside the headquarters of Merck & Co. Inc., Clinton said the toll of the health-care crisis went well beyond the 37 million uninsured U.S. citizens. *private spending for health care undercuts U.S. competitiveness by draining money that could be spent on equipment in equipment and jobs, he said.* "We cannot afford to let any more time go by before we address this problem," said Clinton, promising to submit a plan to Congress within 100 days of taking office. Clinton said his plan would establish a national panel of consumers, health-care providers, business and labor leaders and government officials to set health-care budgets. Hospital, clinic and doctors' fees would be set according to this budget by state boards. 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