Clarifying his position on RU-486 after disappointing pro-lifers during a debate, Republican Presidential candidate George Bush said he would sign legislation to restrict the abortifacient. https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001012/el/bush_abortion_pill_1.html
On Monday, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Dr. Laura Schlessinger took out a full page ad in Daily Variety apologizing for any hurt her “poorly chosen” words may have caused homosexuals. “While I express my opinions from the perspective of an Orthodox Jew and a staunch defender of the traditional family, in talking about gays and lesbians, some of my words were poorly chosen. … Many people perceive them as hate speech. This fact has been personally and professionally devastating to me as well as to many others,” she wrote.
Evangelical leader and heroic pro-lifer Chuck Colson has had his civil rights restored more than 25 years after he was convicted of trying to cover up the Watergate scandal. The former special counsel to President Nixon, Colson served seven months in federal prison for obstruction of justice. After his release he had a conversion and began his now famous prison ministry. Colson, 68, regained, among other things, the right to vote, serve on a jury, run for office and to practice law, if he were to seek admission to the Florida bar. https://new.omaha.com/index.atp?u_div=3&u_hdg=3&u_sid=23065