"Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion
Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the
first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according
to a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter.
A
spokesman for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying
work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning
and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year.
His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W. Bush
to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics that
received federal money, according to the records and to people who worked on the
matter.
The abortion 'gag rule' was then a major political flashpoint.
Lobbying against the rule would have placed Thompson at odds with the
antiabortion movement that he is now trying to rally behind his expected
declaration of a presidential bid"
Sounds like the republicans are going to have a hard time finding a pro-life candidate.
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