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Since Sept. 11, Bush has forged new alliances with feminists.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
WASHINGTON _ When President Bush took up residency in the White House last year, advocates for women's rights were certain they heard the door slam shut behind him.
But now Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, walks right in.
"I did not expect in any way in the first year to meet in the White House. And we did," said Smeal, who has been there several times.
Since Sept. 11, women's activists and White House officials say, the Bush administration has forged a new alliance with several of its most vocal feminist former critics to work first on the treatment of women in Afghanistan and now on challenges to women in other countries and at home.
Having lost the women's vote to former Vice President Al Gore by a margin of 11 percentage points, Bush has been reaching out to feminists and moderate women's groups, in addition to those in his conservative base.
This is a dramatic turn from his first days in office, when the president angered many leading women's advocates by prohibiting federal money from going to organizations that support abortions overseas and by abolishing a White House office on women's initiatives.
Abortion is now the only issue that ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Since Sept. 11, Bush has forged new alliances with feminists.(Knight...