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...abortion method, efforts to legalize it in the U.S. have met with repeated failure. Last year a pro-choice group called Abortion Rights Mobilization decided to force a court challenge of the import ban imposed on RU 486 by the Bush Administration in 1989. The organization helped Leona Benten, a pregnant 29-year-old California social worker, fly to England, obtain a dose of RU 486, then try to bring it into the U.S. through New York City's Kennedy Airport. Customs officials seized the pills. The ensuing legal battle went up to the Supreme Court, which refused to order...
...limit the ways to have one. In a test case involving the French abortion pill RU-486, the Justices by a 7-to-2 vote upheld an appellate-court ruling that bars return of the drug to a pregnant woman. U.S. customs agents had seized the pills from Leona Benten, 29, who had legally acquired them abroad. The court left open the question of the constitutionality of the U.S. ban on RU-486. Benten now plans to have a surgical abortion...
Swimming to an easy 58 to 17 victory over thrice-benten M.I.T., Coach Hal Allen's untested Mormon last night gained their second straight one sided riumph. Much closer was the Freshman meet, where the Crimson oked out a 36 to 30 win over the Techmen. Trailing by a single point, the Yardlings captured the final free style relay by a scant three fact to defeat the boys from down the Charles...
...bronze image of Benten-sama, complacent "Goddess of Mercy," was unveiled. For generations to come it will remind Japanese, whose thoughts might otherwise be bent too much on pleasure, that 730 geisha girls were killed at Tokyo by the earthquake...
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