Word: guam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's going on in Guam is not high in the minds of most Americans. After all, the U.S. territory is home to fewer people than live in Cambridge. Its location in the north Pacific is not a common destination even for those searching for ways to bump up their frequent flyer miles...
...unlike the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico--engulfed by the political storms of statehood movements--Guam is mostly plagued by storms of the natural kind: typhoons and hurricanes such as those that touched down on the island in the past few months...
...fact, a Guam law and resulting court case could have broad implications for the lives of Americans in every corner of this country. This past April, the Ninth Circuit Appellate Court overturned Guam's 1990 abortion law. This legislation had outlawed abortions in the territory, with the exception of cases where pregnancy placed the woman's life in danger...
...refusal to reconsider the repeal of the Guam law, the majority opinion cited the argument of "undue burden" to attack the legality of preventing women from having abortions. The justices lifted this argument from last summer's Casey v. Planned Parenthood ruling that fundamentally upheld 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The National Right to Life Committee called the decision "disappointing but unsurprising...