United Bush Front Running Into Early Challenge; it’s especially convoluted on abortion policy: “Mr. Bush’s choice for attorney general, John Ashcroft, also
seems to have staked out a slightly different position from
the president-elect on an element of the highly charged
debate over abortion.

On Thursday, a day after Mr. Ashcroft told the Senate
Judiciary Committee that he would not seek opportunities to
challenge Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling
on abortion rights, Mr. Bush said in an interview with Fox
News that he would not rule out having his Justice
Department argue for a change in the law.

Further muddling the incoming administration’s position,
Laura Bush, the president-elect’s wife, told NBC News in an
interview broadcast today that she did not think the
Supreme Court decision should be overturned.” New York Times