But the abortion order fulfilled a longtime Bush campaign pledge and it clearly heartened the thousands of protesters who gathered here on Monday to mark the 28th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that ensured a woman's right to seek an abortion. When Clinton took office in 1993, he lifted a far-reaching ban imposed by President Reagan in 1984. The assumption was that if Vice President Al Gore won, the funds would be disbursed. The step they've taken this time is the easy one in the sense that it doesn't affect the rights of Americans, and I can see that makes sense from their point of view. But the signal it sends is that they don't think it's important that women overseas have access to the same information that women have here.
Talk is cheap.
So are photo ops. What really counts is law. You will not be charged to look for stories, only to retrieve one.