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Even within the 5-to-4 majority, though, the Justices' views differed. The markedly conservative Antonin Scalia sharply declared that although he agreed with the majority, the federal courts "have no business in this field." Sandra Day O'Connor urged that further definitions of incompetents' rights be worked out by legislators in "the 'laboratory' of the states...
...know what they wanted." An alcoholic mother, a drug-addicted father, an absent or neglectful parent are some of the reasons teenagers cite for not going home for help. The fact that only half the minors in Minnesota live with both biological parents persuaded Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to agree with the more liberal Justice John Paul Stevens on the need for judicial bypass...
...good reason, Sandra Day O'Connor is known as the abortion swing vote on the U.S. Supreme Court. In two of the cases last week involving parental notification, O'Connor swayed between the court's evenly balanced liberal and conservative wings. She joined court liberals in a 5-to-4 majority that overturned the Minnesota law requiring adolescents to inform both parents ! before obtaining an abortion. Then she moved rightward to give conservatives a 5-to-4 majority that approved the Minnesota law that offers minors the option of getting permission for abortion from a judge...
...some prominent bishops are at odds with shock tactics. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, O'Connor's predecessor as pro-life chairman, says that "the church can be most effective in the public debate on abortion through moral persuasion, not punitive measures." On the other hand, San Diego's Bishop Leo Maher denied Communion to a pro-choice Catholic who was running for the California senate...
Catholic canon law prescribes excommunication for specified moral or ecclesiastical offenses, including procuring an abortion. But bishops like O'Connor are breaking new ground in publicly applying the penalty to politicians who vote pro-choice or favor abortion funding. Father James Provost of the Catholic University of America says that a bishop could theoretically take such action under catchall canon-law provisions concerning errant church members, but he says such instances are "very rare." Though there was speculation that O'Connor would not have issued such a sweeping statement without tacit Vatican approval, Rome has no public policy...