Word: connors
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SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR...
...authority to regulate state employees' wages was endorsed last year. O'Connor chided the majority...
...putting on even bigger exhibitions, covering the entire country. CBS is presenting Bicentennial minutes that run between programs, while PBS has 90 three-minute reports from Bill Moyers. Moyers is also doing eleven one-hour specials, interviewing such constitutional experts as Supreme Court Justices Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and William Brennan. ABC's entertainment division is preparing a one-hour tribute titled The Splendiferous Wham-Bam Constitution Special that will feature a number of stars, including Michael J. Fox and Barbra Streisand. On a serious note, both the ABC and NBC news divisions will present specials on differing...
...young as 24 weeks to survive. Indeed, the framework of Roe v. Wade makes jurisprudence dependent on technological developments. If the moment of viability is pushed back much further toward conception, the state's right to limit abortions will gradually increase. The Roe decision, concluded Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a 1983 opinion on an abortion-related case, is "on a collision course with itself...
...woman's right to abortion in the original Roe v. Wade case of 1973 shrank to only 5-to-4 in a June 1986 ruling reaffirming that decision, with Powell in the majority both times. The deciding vote in future cases might be cast by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has indicated a willingness to countenance restrictions on abortion but not necessarily to overturn Roe entirely. Proponents of abortion rights fear the worst. Said Kate Michelman, of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "We believe the right to choose a safe and legal abortion has never been in greater jeopardy...