Word: bans
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...Zealand have been feuding since 1984, when Prime Minister David Lange kept an election promise to ban American nuclear-armed and -powered ships from his country's ports. In effect, that killed the ANZUS Security Treaty linking Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. in defense of the southern Pacific...
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...abortion only to safeguard the mother's health. Though the court decided that the fetus was not a "person" under the law, it did recognize that states had an interest in protecting "potential life." Because the fetus was considered viable in the final twelve weeks, states were permitted to ban third-trimester abortions, except those necessary to preserve the health of the mother...
Even if, sooner or later, there is an outright reversal of Roe, it will not make abortion illegal. It will simply leave individual states free to permit, regulate or ban abortion as they see fit. The probable result would be a national patchwork. Legislatures in six states have already said they will ban it. An additional 25 have passed restrictions that will go into effect if Roe is overturned. Among those considered most likely to keep it legal are a handful of other states, including California, Hawaii, New York and Washington, which were among the 16 states that permitted abortion...
...ban on abortion would almost certainly result in a further increase in the already high rate of illegitimate births -- now at 23% of American children born each year -- and teenage pregnancies. Taxpayers would end up footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists...