Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Supreme Court's July decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services still fresh in in the minds of pro-choice and anti-abortion activists, the question of abortion rights looms large for many of today's 28 candidates for the Cambridge City Council...
Running the campaign for Zwirn and his slate of two town council candidate, one candidate for town clerk, and one woman who was purportedly running for district court judge but refused to campaign, I realized that the vicious Republican cycle is also perpetuated by the quality of candidates the Democrats...
...Supreme Court's ruling this summer in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and several decisions pending this fall are expected to give the states more power to limit abortions...
...South African law and the proposed Israeli legislation both rely on such vague language. Both grant sweeping powers to the police, and strictly limit court supervision. Both allow search and seizure of property without warrants. And both bypass important elements of due process-in South Africa, suspects are required to give oral evidence with out a lawyer's assistance, while in Israel the normal rules of evidence would be bypassed...
...estimated 900 people from the University attended the first-of-its-kind March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...