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Abortion and the Virginia race (Editorial)

August 17, 2009
Washington Post

Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, has an admirably detailed Web site. It devotes thousands of words to his plans to create jobs, end gridlock, improve education, enhance public safety, clean up the environment, tighten public spending . . . well, you get the idea. 

However, Mr. McDonnell, the former attorney general, gives relatively short shrift -- just two or three sentences -- to the topic of abortion, a subject that preoccupied him so much during his career as a lawmaker that he introduced some 35 bills to restrict access to the procedure. Mr. McDonnell is not trying to hide his absolutist opposition to abortion, which extends even to cases of rape or incest; let's just say he's not advertising it too loudly.

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