ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 TAG: 9603130049
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: RICHMOND
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Miller said Tuesday that if his daughter were impregnated by a rapist, he would encourage her to have the baby.
Miller, a budget director in the Reagan administration, is challenging Sen. John Warner in a June 11 primary.
Miller said that he supports abortion only to save the life of the mother. In response to a reporter's question, Miller said he would tell his daughter not to have an abortion if she were raped.
``I would encourage her not to have an abortion, to keep the baby or put it up for adoption,'' Miller said during a campaign swing with conservative family activists who have endorsed his candidacy.
Among those who endorsed him are Kay Coles James, Gov. George Allen's former Health and Human Resources secretary; Walter Barbee, president of the Family Foundation; and the Rev. R. Mark Jarvis, state director of the American Family Association of Virginia.
Miller said the family vote will be key in his bid to unseat Warner.
``The rights of families are being undermined at every turn,'' he said. He cited cases in which minors were allowed to have abortions without their parents' knowledge, even when the same child couldn't get an aspirin at school without parental permission.
- Associated Press
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