Word: insists
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...keep people alive in a state of semideath. In a cautious and carefully hedged decision, the Rehnquist majority declared for the first time that there is indeed a right to die. Rehnquist pointedly explained that this right derives not from any implicit constitutional guarantee of privacy (which conservatives insist is not actually in the Constitution) but rather from the 14th Amendment's due-process clause. "The principle that a competent person has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment may be inferred from our prior decisions," Rehnquist said...
Relatively few abortions are at stake here -- less than 1% of the 1.6 million abortions performed annually result from rape or incest -- yet the pro-life movement is determined to fight over each one. The movement insists that its position springs from religious beliefs that allow no compromise. Indeed, the harsh logic of the abortion argument makes the exception for rape and incest vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy. If all fetal life is sacred, as pro-lifers insist, there should be no distinction between pregnancies that result from consensual sex and those that result from force. Otherwise, bearing...
...treating Israel like other nations is beyond Washington's courage, then certainly the U.S. must insist that the extra $400 million in congressionally approved housing loan guarantees be withheld until Israel promises not to move Soviet immigrants to the occupied territories...
...would be dropped in exchange for his resignation. But Stephens has not accepted the offer, perhaps out of concern that such a deal would lend credence to Barry's claim that the case was a racially motivated effort to "politically lynch" a prominent black official. Stephens reportedly continues to insist that Barry plead guilty to at least one felony count, which would probably mean some time in jail...
...worth in California. Proposition 111 had the support of the gubernatorial candidates of both parties and more than 250 business, labor and social-service groups that spanned the political spectrum. Bipartisan support reduces a politician's vulnerability to attack by opponents as a tax-happy spender. In Washington Democrats insist they need that cover from Republicans -- but Republicans fear they would be exposed to primary challenges from even more conservative candidates back home...