Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATIONAL opinion polls consistently demonstrate that a majority of Americans are pro-choice; that is, they favor a legal right to abortion, perhaps with some restrictions. But the emotional rallies, the fights, the sharply divided groups from East to West prove that the issue was not adequately settled by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that first established a constitutional right to abortion...
RATHER than reproduce a legislative structure for legal abortion, the Court--led by the unwillingness of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to overturn Roe--established a political forum within which the forces on both sides of the issue can mobilize and establish clearly the aspects of abortion laws that Americans support...
Prior to Webster, all debate focused on whether or not Roe should be overturned, but no alternate systems for continuing legal abortion were considered. Now the issue has been reopened with nothing taken for granted, which is why anti-abortion activists view Webster as a victory, and pro-choice proponents are despondent...
...this is where that pro-choice majority must seize the opportunity handed down by the Supreme Court to demand that their sentiments be represented in a workable legal framework...
Since flag burnings occur only rarely, the amendment would amount to using a sledgehammer to kill a flea. Moreover, legal scholars warn, one exception to free speech could lead to another...