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...newsletter refers to pro-life activist as "anti-choice protestors [sic]." Bringing the language of choice to the issue of abortion, and calling themselves "pro-choice, " was a simply themselves brilliant maneuver by the pro-abortion movement. It reduces the decision to abort to just another part of our modern consumer culture...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Pro-Choice: Abortion to Go? | 2/18/1994 | See Source »

...question whether the Pentagon's new policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" will be able to withstand constitutional scrutiny. "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what they do, and not by who they are," wrote Chief Judge Abner Mikva. "It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of a majority, a preference untarnished by even a scintilla of misconduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conduct Unbecoming? | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

NAFTA is important, however, primarily for reasons going beyond its own economic effects. Its rejection by the U.S. could topple a much bigger domino: a proposed agreement to promote freer trade among the more than 100 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade could die. That would abort an expansion of world trade that many nations are counting on to help end the recession afflicting the industrial world. The U.S. would be especially hurt: the GATT agreement contains protections for "intellectual property" (patents, copyrights) that American exporters sorely need but do not now have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Just That Close | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...idea is headline simple: if genetic testing allowed parents to know that their child in the womb would probably grow up gay, would they abort the fetus and try again for a straight one? To make the decision tougher, Tolins gives the prospective mother (Jennifer Grey) a beloved brother (an engagingly prickly Raphael Sbarge) who is flamboyantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What If Baby Grows Up Gay? | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

None of it is guaranteed to happen. Doubtless there will be many twistings and turnings, moments of tension and suspense, backsliding by either side that threatens to abort the whole process before a real peace is nailed down. But the odds seem to be that one will be achieved. Last week's breakthrough was the result less of altruism than of simple realism. Secret talks in Oslo built enough trust to impel Arafat and Rabin to take the first step: recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Together Now | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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