2 ABORTION FOES WIN SENATE NOMINATIONS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Republicans who oppose abortion won Senate nominations in Georgia and Kansas Tuesday over rivals who back abortion rights, and the anti-abortion candidate in Michigan's primary maintained an early lead. Initial results from the flurry of primary voting mirrored the debate over abortion that threatens to disrupt party calls for unity less than a week before the start of the Republican convention in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . In Kansas, Rep. Sam Brownback Samuel Dale Brownback (b. September 12 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20 2007, he announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election. defeated Sen. Sheila Frahm Sheila Sloan Frahm (born March 221945) served in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Kansas for a brief period in 1996. Frahm was born in Colby, Kansas. She was a member of the Kansas State board of education from 1985 to 1988, a member of the Kansas State Senate from 1989 for the GOP nomination in the race to serve out the last two years of Bob Dole's term. With 67 percent of precincts reporting, Brownback had 114,055 votes, or 55 percent, and Frahm had 84,715 votes, or 41 percent. In Georgia, Guy Millner Guy W. Millner is a multi-millionaire businessman who ran as a Republican for Governor of Georgia in 1994, United States Senator from Georgia in 1996 and Governor of Georgia in 1998. , founder of a temporary services agency who would ban abortions except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother, easily defeated real estate developer Johnny Isakson.And in Michigan, Ronna Romney, a 52-year-old former Detroit radio talk show host who opposes abortion, except to save the life of the mother, led businessman Jim Nicholson, 53, who supports a woman's right to an abortion. |
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