Word: falkenberg
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...speak-outs are an attempt to emphasize the personal rather than the political side of the pro-choice movement. Criticizing antiabortion activists, Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of NARAL, says, "No one is talking to women and men who have made a decision on this. They are interviewing doctors, theologians, bio-ethicists. But the real experts are the men and women who decide. That perspective makes the issue real." According to NARAL, 1.5 million women a year choose to have an abortion. Advertisements for the movement show three women of different ages and races, one of them holding a baby...
Portions of The Silent Scream aired on network news shows last week. "Never have so many millions of Americans seen such a graphic representation of a baby being ripped apart," said Congressman Robert Dornan, an antiabortion Republican from California. "The other side is now on the defensive." Admitted Nanette Falkenberg of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "I think we're in for some hard times...
...Connor is a likely vote against abortion The staunchest defenders of the decision-Brennan, Marshall and Blackmun-are all at least 75 years old. "All of our guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition...
...fant care challenge that decade-old assumption. "It is certainly reasonable to believe that fetal viability in the first trimester of pregnancy may be possible in the not too distant future," Justice O'Connor wrote last year. "The court would not have to go against precedent," says Falkenberg. "It could simply say that the state had a compelling interest in protecting the fetus at an earlier stage." Some legal experts believe the court would prefer not to re-examine advances in medicine constantly and would decide instead that it should not be in the business of determining when life...
Stating that the debate was meant to concern political action and that abortion "is a matter of personal choice," Falkenberg emphasized the political strategies of NARAL in her presentation...