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...insurgency remains confined largely to the Sunni triangle stretching north from Baghdad - but its theater of operations includes the capital, home to almost one quarter of Iraq's population and its locus of power. And it plainly enjoys, if not the support then at least the consent of a sizable portion of the Sunni population. Although there have been attacks on coalition forces in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and some of the southern cities, even the most radical element of the Shiite population has refrained from urging violence against the U.S., waiting out the political process, which...
...Tehran. One key issue is the fate of a number of key al-Qaeda personnel currently in the hands of the Iranian authorities; another is Iraq, where the ability of the occupation forces to manage the increasingly restive Shiite population may depend in substantial part in securing tacit Iranian consent for the U.S.-authored transition process. Progress on the nuclear issue will certainly help the two sides reach understandings on the other questions...
...whom were nominated to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and both rejected by the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee last year. Even though Pickering advocated the passage of a Constitutional amendment banning abortion and Owen ruthlessly condemned pregnant minors for seeking abortions without parental consent, Bush still stands by his choices today...
...home, the administration not only prohibits U.S. military women from receiving abortions in military hospitals but also demands parental consent, compulsory waiting periods, limits on public funding for abortion and arbitrary requirements on how wide clinic doorways must be. None of these new laws has been made to benefit women’s health, but to make abortion more difficult. Instead, laws like these limit access to abortion to only 29 states, according to NARAL Pro-Choice America. With 219 anti-choice bills introduced and 34 enacted in 2002 alone, it is feared that soon enough women will struggle...
...that they are defending rights that every woman deserves. When one learns that these groups suppress initiatives and organizations that seek to give women a free and informed choice, however, the rhetoric rings hollow. Only when “pro-choice” activists recognize the necessity of informed consent, when they genuinely support parenting and adoption as realistic and viable options, when they act in the interests of the woman facing the most difficult decision of her life—only then will they earn the name “pro-choice...