WASHINGTON -- Taking a page from the Democrats' bus tour book, a group of Republicans has left Washington on a two-week cavalcade to Houston to dramatize their support for abortion rights, an issue that threatens to fracture the GOP convention in three weeks.
While the party has long been divided over abortion, the Reagan revolution squelched the abortion-rights faction in 1980 and only recently has it begun to be more vocal.
Mary Dent Crisp, a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, and Ann Stone, a conservative Republican, are spearheading the drive this year and they pledge not to be silenced in Houston.
