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Monday, Jan. 29, 2001

Cheney also removed any doubt that the new administration favors reversal of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion, although he said there is not now majority support for it.

Appearing Sunday on the NBC television program "Meet the Press," Cheney said:

"Even if you could not, at this stage, build majority support for the notion of changing Roe vs. Wade, there are areas out there where I think we can get majority support, such as banning partial-birth abortions."

Although in the past six years Congress has voted repeatedly to outlaw partial-birth abortion, performed late in a woman's pregnancy, Clinton vetoed it on the grounds it did not have an exemption to protect a woman's health.

Asked if the Bush-Cheney administration will not try to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision, Cheney replied, "I didn't say that.

"President Bush and I have talked – both of us strong supporters of the pro-life position – and the president's made it very clear the policy of this administration will be to try to find ways to reduce the incidence of abortion."

Cheney said he would not discuss first lady Laura Bush's comment earlier this month that she does not agree Roe vs. Wade should be overturned.

"I am especially not interested in getting in the middle of discussions between the president and the first lady on those or other issues," he said.

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