Word: bork
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COVER: The battle begins over Robert Bork' s nomination to the Supreme Court...
...Senate' s verdict on the controversial nominee could affect the course of American law and society well into the 21st century. -- Bork' s intellectual odyssey has led him from socialism to an iconoclastic conservatism. -- The judge has criticized many landmark decisions, but would he try to overturn them? -- How changed court majority might affect abortion. See NATION...
Since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision striking down laws prohibiting abortion, almost 20 million pregnancies have been terminated in the U.S. Robert Bork believes that ruling is without foundation. His opinion chills women's groups and cheers right-to-life supporters, who expect Bork to become part of a new court majority that will overturn Roe. That outcome, however, is far from certain...
...Bork's position on the law is unequivocal. "Roe v. Wade," he asserted to Congress in 1981, "is itself an unconstitutional decision, a serious and wholly unjustifiable judicial usurpation of state legislative authority." He does not believe the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy, the guiding principle underlying...
...Still, Bork has never said outright that he would strike down Roe, and of late he has even paid lip service to the judicial principle that it is better to leave certain long-settled decisions in effect if reversing them would create chaos. Bork has never declared that abortion is morally wrong, and in 1981 he testified in Congress against the "human life" bill that would have defined life as beginning at conception. Says John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee: "We're not sure Bork is against abortion. In our circles, there is substantial doubt that...