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Just two days after the court's ruling, pro-life activists were applauding an even more stunning victory: the Louisiana legislature gave final approval to the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The bill would make abortion a punishable criminal act unless the life of the mother was at stake. It allows no exception for victims of rape or incest...
...Louisiana bill and the court's rulings bring to a head the two fierce battles fought this past year: the pro-life movement's push to deny abortion to all pregnant women, even victims of rape and incest; and the pro-choice movement's effort to strike down parental-involvement laws as back-door ways to restrict abortion that do nothing to improve communication between parent and child...
...violence of rape or incest. The pro-life movement brooks no exception to the absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions for rape and incest...
...equipment was flown from London. Experts and other gear came from Alaska and Seattle. Mexico was asked to send a huge oil-gobbling skimmer. And while the Rotterdam firm hired Texas boats and seamen to help out, a French company, which owned the oil cargo, recruited cleanup crews in Louisiana. With considerable understatement, Linda Maraniss, regional director of the Center for Marine Conservation, observed, "There was a general confusion about where the equipment was and who was in charge...
...Klansman turned Senate candidate last week led colleagues in the Louisiana house in passing bills that cut back affirmative action and grant virtual immunity to those who beat up flag burners...