>the surprise for me was -- did i HEAR this right?? -- gore offering to
>sign a bill banning so-called "partial-birth abortions" (with some caveats
>about exceptions for the health of the mother)... or has gore been saying
>this all along, and i'm so out of touch i didn't know about it?? what the
>hell??
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/04/politics/04RTEXT2.html>
Gore: "First of all, on the issue of partial-birth or so-called late-term abortion, I would sign a law banning that procedure, provided that doctors have the ability to save a woman's life or to act if her health is severely at risk."
Doug