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To: Anti-Bubba182
Even if Fred did some lobbying for them, it may have had nothing to do with abortion. The above indicates other services.

From Medical News today website quoting the LA Times article
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/76314.php

"...hired Thompson, who was working for the lobbying firm Arent Fox, to urge the George H.W. Bush administration to withdraw or relax a federal policy on funding restrictions for groups providing abortion-related services (Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 7/7)."
23 posted on 07/18/2007 10:42:49 PM PDT by elizabetty (The funding dried up and I can no longer afford Tagline Messages.)
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To: elizabetty
The article you cited also says:

Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says

"..Thompson spokesman Mark Corallo adamantly denied that Thompson worked for the family planning group. "Fred Thompson did not lobby for this group, period," he said in an e-mail.

In a telephone interview, he added: "There's no documents to prove it, there's no billing records, and Thompson says he has no recollection of it, says it didn't happen." In a separate interview, John H. Sununu, the White House official whom the family planning group wanted to contact, said he had no memory of the lobbying and doubted it took place..."

The only document in the article is a two page minutes of a NFPRHA Board Meeting Minutes, September 14, 1991 where they claim to have hired Thompson.

37 posted on 07/18/2007 11:35:02 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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