Word: banning
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...graduate board presidents of Harvard's eight final clubs voted unanimously this summer--as part of sweeping reforms in the clubs' guest and alcohol policies--to ban beer kegs at all club buildings...
When the House of Representatives voted last week to overturn President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that big majorities find repugnant? What better gift to give Bob Dole, as he searches for the wedge issues that might give him traction with the conservative and Roman Catholic voters who should form the base of his support...
...skull and extract the head from the birth canal. In many such abortions, the fetus is so severely deformed or the pregnancy so complicated that carrying the child to term would threaten the life or health of the mother. Here lies the core of the fight: Clinton supports a ban if it allows exceptions to protect the mother's health, but the current bill allows only cases in which her life is at stake...
...reliable figures, experts estimate that partial-birth abortion accounts for perhaps 600 of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. Its rarity, however, takes nothing away from its horror, and all along, the symbolic importance of the issue has driven both sides of the debate. The ban that passed earlier this year was the first attempt by Congress to outlaw a specific abortion procedure in the 23 years since the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Now that the Senate has failed to override President Clinton's veto of a bill that would ban partial-birth abortions, the issue is off the legislative table for the year, but look for it in the televised presidential debates. That could potentially do serious political damage to Clinton, says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "This is one of the few issues in which the Republicans clearly have the polls on their side," she says. "I'm not surprised they plan to use it to make Clinton look like an extremist." To save himself from...