Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE the AMA can at least try (and fail) to defend its positions on Medicare reform, its hypocrisy is undeniable on the issue of abortion. Amidst much pomp and circumstance, the AMA filed a pro-choice legal brief with the Supreme Court before the Webster case...
...individual's fundamental privacy and liberty right to be free of government extends to medical treatment decisions," the legal brief nobly argued. But when this "fundamental right" clashed with the income of doctors, the AMA chose the low road...
...political and social questions, 51 percent said they favored keeping abortion legal in all circumstances and 38 percent in some circumstances while 7 percent were opposed to abortion for any reason...
...total of 69 percent were opposed while 23 percent favored removing the legal prohibition against using marijuana. Sentiment was almost even on the question of a U.S. amendment against desecrating the American flag...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...