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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not make abortion illegal. It will simply leave individual states free to permit, regulate or ban abortion as they see fit. The probable result would be a national patchwork. Legislatures in six states have already said they will ban it. An additional 25 have passed restrictions that will go into effect if Roe is overturned. Among those considered most likely to keep it legal are a handful of other states, including California, Hawaii, New York and Washington, which were among the 16 states that permitted abortion before the Roe decision...
...abortion would almost certainly result in a further increase in the already high rate of illegitimate births -- now at 23% of American children born each year -- and teenage pregnancies. Taxpayers would end up footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists Dr. John...
...1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
ROSANNE CASH: HITS 1979-1989 (Columbia). She's got a half-past-4-in-the- morning voice and a knowing way with a song that can make any listener wish the night would go on forever...
Alas, the go-for-it Texas system has in the 1980s become the American system. From former Attorney General Edwin Meese (not indicted) to imagemaker Michael Deaver (convicted), Ronald Reagan's closest advisers ran aground in part because they envied the easy California wealth of the President's kitchen Cabinet. From Abscam to Wedtech, East Coast Congressmen have found it hard to resist fast-money blandishments and outright bribery. Texas politicians like Jim Wright are far from unique in confusing doing well with doing good...