Likely GOP nominee Bob Dole and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), co-chair of the GOP platform committee, have reportedly reached a compromise on abortion language in the GOP platform. What is the nature of the agreement?

• The committee will put tolerance language directly into the abortion plank of the GOP platform expressing support for the "deep and sometimes differing views on issues of personal conscience like abortion and capital punishment."
  
• The GOP platform will maintain the plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion, but the platform's preamble will recognize "within our ranks different approaches to achieving our common goal." And a new "tolerance plank" would acknowledge "deep and sometimes differing views on issues of personal conscience like abortion and capital punishment."
  
• The abortion plank in the GOP platform will not be moderated or changed until the GOP convention in August.
  
• The GOP platform will maintain the plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion, but the platform's preamble will recognize "within our ranks different approaches to achieving our common goal." The convention will vote on a new "tolerance plank" that would acknowledge "deep and sometimes differing views on issues of personal conscience like abortion and capital punishment."
  

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