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...response, Brady said she wouldn’t ban personal gun ownership, but instead would impose the most vigorous background checks possible and require owners to complete a rigorous firearms safety training course...
Brady told the audience of her push in the late 1980s for a ban on so-called “plastic guns,” which metal detectors can’t catch...
...crusader for tougher gun control laws since the 1980s, when her husband Jim was critically wounded in a failed assassination attempt on President Reagan. Brady has worked successfully to lobby for legislation such as the Brady Bill—named for her husband—and the Assault Weapons Ban...
...Supreme Court in Roe recognized a woman’s right to make her own childbearing decisions, including the right to choose abortion. However, the “partial-birth” ban should signal to all that this hard-won constitutional right is in grave danger. In addition to a Republican-dominated Congress, the presence of an anti-choice president in the White House and the retirement of even one Supreme Court Justice could pave the way for Roe to be overturned...
...America have joined together for the first time ever to organize a march on Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 25, 2004. Women have struggled hard to achieve the rights they enjoy today, but the battle for their rights has just begun. With the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, now is the time to realize a danger that the Bush administration poses to the woman’s right to control her own body. Without action, the protections guaranteed under Roe could soon become obsolete...