Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says
Spokesman for the GOP presidential hopeful says he did no such work. Ex-colleague calls the denial 'bizarre.'
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.
The Tennessean newspaper reported that Thompson, when filling out a 1996 Christian Coalition survey, marked himself as "opposed" to a constitutional amendment ...
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