Word: connors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right's complaints against O'Connor center on four issues...
Abortion. Right-to-lifers have attacked O'Connor for votes she cast as a state legislator on several separate bills. In 1973 she co-sponsored a measure that would make "all medically acceptable family-planning methods and information" available to anyone who wanted...
...vote of the Arizona senate's judiciary committee the following year, O'Connor reportedly opposed a "right-to-life memorial" that called upon Congress to extend constitutional protection to unborn babies, except where the pregnant mother's life was at stake. Also in 1974, she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider had been attached banning state abortion funding to the university hospital...
...Connor does not recall her vote on the pro-life memorial (it was not officially recorded). She has solid, if legalistic, explanations for her other two votes. A strict constructionist, she does not believe that her family-planning measure could be interpreted to include abortion. The bond-issue rider, she believed, was not germane to the bill and O'Connor as Arizona senator therefore violated the state constitution...
Equal Rights Amendment. O'Connor, as her critics accurately charge, favored passage of the amendment by the state legislature in 1972, and two years later attempted to put ERA before the voters in a referendum. But she did not subsequently press for its passage. Her critics fail to note that other conservatives favored ERA at first and later changed their minds. In any case, Arizona is one of the states least likely to ratify...