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...Deel's neighbor Ron Longcore, 66, a burly, gruff orchardist and Oceana County lifer, wants to lease a sliver of his land to house some of Michigan Wind Energy's turbines. The money, he says, would help cover taxes and insurance on his orchards, averting the need to parcel off parts of the property to residential developers. "I'd rather see one or two towers sitting out there than a bunch of houses," says Longcore. "I want to preserve my way of life...
...Europe. On the other side are those who contend that sex education is up to the parents, not the state, and that teaching children about birth control is tantamount to condoning promiscuity. Sex-education classes are simply "sales meetings" for abortion clinics, says Phyllis Schlafly, a leading right-to-lifer. In addition, she claims, there is simply no way to tell youngsters about contraception "without implicitly telling them that sex is O.K. You've put your Good Housekeeping seal...
...widely credited with helping to pull the party’s losing presidential ticket to victory in the Keystone State. Seeing Casey’s strength, Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democrats’ Senate campaign committee, persuaded the pro-lifer to run for the Senate next year against Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn.—a formidable, but extremely right-wing incumbent. And in doing so, Schumer muscled aside a fellow pro-choice politician, who also happened to be a well-qualified woman...
...sound middle ground for those on both sides of the issue to approach [March 7]. I hope the argument of moral consequences vs. a woman's right to choose can be set aside in order to focus on what everyone really wants: fewer abortions. As a staunch pro-lifer and Christian, I have a hard time admitting that we need to increase access to contraception, but I certainly would accept pills and condoms (with a healthy dose of lessons on abstinence and self-control) to avoid the taking of human life...
Each of the few who did make a run for it was hamstrung in some way, such as former Texas Representative Martin Frost, still hurting from a bitter power struggle with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and former Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, a pro-lifer who voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and against Bill Clinton's 1993 economic plan...