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...family's anonymity, has a flaccid, useless heart, no working lungs and an underdeveloped brain. She can suck, kick and open one eye but may not have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort of baby," say doctors who testified before British high-court judge Robert Johnson. Mary's life depends on Jodie's heart and lungs, and the strain will probably give Jodie heart failure and kill them both in three to six months. Thus the agonizing dilemma: Should surgeons detach Mary, certainly killing her, to let Jodie live a relatively normal...
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA No constitutional right to die, he says, inadvertently prejudging case on high-court docket...
...with the recent Supreme Court ruling that requires them to serve a compelling government interest and be narrowly tailored to their goals. In his speech the President tried to reassure liberals that they have an ally in the White House on affirmative action. But with the impact of the high-court decision looming, says a top Clinton aide, alluding to the impact of the Supreme Court decision, "there's a day of reckoning coming...
...pending high-court decision could change the landscape significantly. It revolves around the 1971 Lemon ruling, which bars tax support for salaries and secular textbooks in religious day schools. The decision set up a three-part test to determine whether a government action is an unconstitutional infringement of church-state separation: an action must have a "secular legislative purpose," avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion" and have a "primary effect" that "neither advances nor inhibits religion...
...expected to be off the agenda until late this summer, possibly next year. Meanwhile Clinton has indicated his willingness to compromise on gays in the military and gave further assurances, with last week's news of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt as a potential Supreme Court nominee, that the next high-court Justice will be a moderate...