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Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Not even 'conservative issue' for older generation: Goodman

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 15, 2009 1:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe: The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even... Read full story »

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