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...ROUNDS ARE CREATED EQUAL...
...political map of the post-Civil Rights South. After 12 years of Republican rule and alongside a solidly Democratic Congress, the new administration promised something resembling a new consensus, one that would finally recapture the ideal of an active and charitable government, delivering on healthcare, union rights, and equal pay.Then came Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Hillarycare. Then the Contract with America and the ’94 midterms. Then two government shutdowns. Then Monica Lewinsky. And then, and then, and then.By 1999, Democrats had been out-bullied by a Republican political machine capitalizing...
...save a woman's life, and notes that the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that subsequent state laws allowing abortions under other circumstances should not be assumed to overturn the ban. The booklet also notes the Michigan Supreme court has rejected the argument that the state's Equal Protection clause requires public funding for low-income women seeking medical abortions. It concludes that "Michigan's legislature has been and continues to be extremely anti-choice, making the state highly vulnerable to enactment of a new ban." The state entry is consequently written in red to indicate "high risk...
...LInton, by contrast, devotes 11 pages to Michigan, tackling the pre-Roe ban and the appeals court ruling just for starters. From there it moves on to list four provisions in the state declaration of rights that pro-choice forces might use to assert abortion rights (including the equal protection clause). Then it provides Linton's detailed assessment of how each would fail. While he reaches the same conclusion that What if Roe Fell drew, Linton's is infinitely more finely argued. There are 70 footnotes...
...committed supporter of Title IX in the mid-1990s, which requires equal spending on men's and women's sports at the collegiate level...