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Bush's Second Chance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hadley Arkes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2005 First Things 152 (April 2005): 13-19. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety (Henry IV, Part 1). The sense of relief, felt so deeply in the pro-life community on November 3, 2004, seems to have drifted away in the weeks and months since the presidential election. It is already easy to forget how great a threat the election posed: even the most sober observers of the political scene recognized that a Kerry presidency would mark the end of any prospects for the pro-life cause in Congress or...