Word: dissents
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...Justices who originally opposed Roe vs. Wade, Byron White and William Rehnquist, were joined last week by Sandra Day O'Connor, who authored the strongly worded dissent (see box). O'Connor argued that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists in all stages of the pregnancy. She wrote: "In Roe, the court held that although the state had an important and legitimate interest in protecting potential life, that interest could not become compelling until the point at which the fetus was viable. The difficulty with this analysis is clear: potential life is no less...
...Connor had cast as an Arizona state senator that were interpreted as being proabortion. Therefore, it came as something of a surprise last week when, in the first test of her views on the issue since she joined the brethren 21 months ago, O'Connor wrote a blunt dissent to the court's opinion that reaffirmed the right to abortion...
...fact, O'Connor's dissent may reflect a sturdy commitment to states' rights, rather than any personal feelings about abortion. She cited earlier court decisions: " 'Scrupulous regard for the rightful independence of state governments' counsels against 'unnecessary interference by the federal courts.' " Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Washington's Georgetown University Law Center disagrees with Justice Lewis Powell that O'Connor's dissent is a veiled bid to overturn Roe vs. Wade. "I don't think it undermines Roe" Seidman says. "But we don't know what...
...addition, by giving financial aid to the families of political prisoners, the organization helps remove a deterrent to dissent. "There is no welfare for the relatives of criminals in South Africa," Gomes explains. "So families are punished along with the prisoner which is the ultimate form of intimidation. We negate to some extent that intimidation through financial assistance...
...effect of these actions is to permit civil disobedience within the apartheid state, says the Black South African studying in this area. "The burden of dissent would be impossible to bear alone," he adds...