Word: birthed
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...Supreme Court should clarify stance on "partial-birth" abortion
...recent attack on abortion has taken a variety of forms, all of which jeopardize women's Constitutional rights. On Sept. 19, the House of Representatives voted to override President Clinton's veto of the bill banning a late-term abortion procedure commonly known as "partial-birth" abortions. While the Senate couldn't muster the required two-thirds majority to override the veto last week, the debate has brought the issue of abortion to the center of the political arena...
Over 30 states have passed some sort of ban on partial-birth abortions, but 20 of them have been blocked or restricted in enforcing the ban by the courts. Just a day after the Senate failed to override the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion bill, a federal appeals court upheld Illinois and Wisconsin bans of the procedure, virtually ensuring that the issue will go to the Supreme Court...
...think the most historic place in China is Tiananmen Square. It was there that Mao gave birth to a beautiful nation in front of a crowd of thousands of optimistic Chinese. Forty years later, it was the very same Tiananmen Square where Deng massacred hopeful Chinese. Now as China celebrates its 50th anniversary, President Jiang Zemin has promised a better future for thousands of hopeful Chinese people. Talk about history repeating itself. MAHESH SUBBA Kathmandu, Nepal...
...WONDER YEARS For 27 years, researchers at the University of North Carolina followed the progress of children enrolled in quality child-care programs. Last week they revealed that those who attended such programs soon after birth through kindergarten maintained the positive effects of the education into adulthood, doing better on reading and math tests than those who didn't receive such an education...