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Bob Dole and Abortion

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It’s considered one of the labored on, but under- reported media story in this election season: In the early 1970’s Senator Bob Dole took a woman to the University of Kansas Medial Center for an after-hours abortion. Jim Ledbetter of the Village Voice has been writing about it for the past few weeks. But the first person to break the story was David Zimmerman in the New York based newsletter called Probe, who joins us now..

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