Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal. But pro-choice sentiment is frustrated as far as Virginia's gubernatorial race is concerned. The Republican candidate, former state attorney general Marshall Coleman, is a strict antiabortionist who says that if he wins, he will appoint only pro-lifers to health and children's services positions. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, is seeking to become the first black elected to govern a state, and will not risk alienating moderate voters. So he has been waffling on abortion, proposing that parental consent be required for abortions on girls 18 and under...
...little expense. So essential has electricity become that more than 2 million miles of power lines, literally huge extension cords, criss-cross the U.S. But nowadays many Americans are increasingly fearful that the electric and magnetic fields generated by such overhead cables pose a serious threat to human health, causing everything from learning disorders to cancer...
...sometimes abandon construction of power lines. Seven states have set limits for the strength of electric fields created along power-line paths; Florida has also adopted a standard for magnetic fields. Fremont, Calif., requires that potential buyers of new homes adjacent to overhead lines be warned of possible health risks. Last month in Florida a judge declared that pupils of Sandpiper Shores Elementary School near Boca Raton could not play in a major portion of the schoolyard because of nearby power cables...
...would have imagined that Ronald Reagan and Anthony Scalia would do for the Woman's Movement what the National Organization for Woman could never do? The Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which gave states more latitude in implementing abortion restrictions, has finally given gender politics a much needed shove...
WIDELY expected to be a definitive ruling on the legality of abortion in this country, last week's Webster v. Missouri Reproductive Health Services decision accomplished the opposite--instead of deciding the issue, it opened the doors for further discussion...