Word: lifer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When pro-lifer Michael Griffin shot abortion doctor David Gunn in March of last year, the killing helped crystallize a growing public skepticism that the confrontational blockade-and-harass tactics of organizations like Randall Terry's Operation Rescue and Joseph Scheidler's Pro-Life Action Network accurately reflected the compassionate motivations of many pro-lifers. The pro-choice movement, not surprisingly, had already noticed a growing violence among its opposition, and associated it quite directly with the ascension of groups like Terry's and Scheidler's. Since the mid-1980s the choicers had been searching for a sort of statutory...
...handing out 99-year, no-parole sentences all over the place. That's ridiculous. States can't afford to keep locking people away for eternity. It takes $1 million to house a lifer. Look at these convicts around me. They're old men at 50, like me, or even 40. The fire's been burned out of them years ago. Most of them you'll never have to worry about again...
...balked; then 375 convicts joined their "work buck." Confronted by every warden's worst nightmare -- a prisoner rebellion -- Whitley did the unthinkable: he backed down. He publicly called the idea a bad one and said a private contractor would build the table instead. "He admitted he was wrong," says lifer Patrick DeVille. "Wardens just don't do that...
During his failed 1980 presidential campaign, Bush said unequivocally that he supported a woman's right to an abortion. When he joined the Reagan team, he took on the campaign's position, and he has been a more or less ardent pro-lifer ever since...
SEPARATED BY A BROAD AVENUE AND A SCORE OF broad-shouldered Salt Lake City cops, two knots of demonstrators debated the abortion issue with chants and placards. THE TIME TO CHOOSE IS BEFORE BEDTIME, advised a pro-lifer sign. PARTY PLATFORM: OUT OF BOARDROOMS, INTO WOMEN'S WOMBS took the originality prize among the pro-choicers. Ann Stone, a conservative who usually supports the President, elicited smiles on both sides of West Temple Street when she cracked, "George Bush knows there are pro-choice Republicans; he's married...