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...abortion tapdance consists of a lot of passionate rhetoric and a voting record that doesn't match. Heckler has been a staunch right-to-lifer since the year one, so much so that Sen. Bob Packwood (R.-Ore) became one of the only three senators to vote against Heckler during her confirmation hearings for her new federal post. When Packwood, who supports abortion, asked her at the hearings whether she believed Congress ought to use legislation to reverse the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it. Heckler engaged in some top-notch hedging. "The reason I am so bothered." Packwood said...
Similar before-and-after studies in Canada, England and other countries likewise found nothing to suggest that capital punishment had deterred murderers any better than the prospect of long prison terms. And in Britain during the 1950s, a typical "lifer" actually served only about seven years, compared with a much tougher average U.S. "life" term today of 20 years. A comprehensive study in the U.S., by the National Academy of Sciences in 1978, also found that the death penalty had not proved its worth as a deterrent...
...setting is a room in the Flossie Patch Nursing Home in Burley, Idaho. Clarissa (Anne Pitoniak) is bedridden, and Flo (Susan Kingsley) tools in on a health" to wheelchair get out the reporting first that time she and she'll "faked do it again. "I'm a lifer," responds Clarissa, but not despairingly. The two women are feisty graveyard jesters and the word terminal is not in their vocabulary...
...lifer I appreciated your observations in "The Prison Nightmare." The public must realize that prison is an institution of great social reform that has turned into a monster. The mentality that says lock 'em up and throw away the key is producing overcrowded conditions that inevitably explode...
Determining what life is and when it exists has been a subject philosophers and theologians have struggled with for centuries. I doubt that the Congress of the U.S. will come up with the answer. Consequently, it is regrettable that the pro-lifers are threatening opponents with political ruin. They would probably support Satan himself if he ran as a pro-lifer against a pro-choice candidate...