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...involvement is like arguing for the right to burn the American flag -- politically, it is a tough case no matter how right the reasoning. Now that the Supreme Court has put its stamp of approval on some notification laws, the two sides head back to the legislatures. Says Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "On the heels of this week's court decisions, we again confront the reality that the right to choose literally hangs by a thread in post-Webster America...
...students could not legally bring suit against Harvard because they would not be directly harmed. For that reason, Ryan maintained that Bok and the law professors--Associate Dean Louis Kaplow, Professor of Law Gerald E. Frug, Professor of Law Martha L. Minow and Professor of Law Frank I. Michelman--should not be compelled to testify in the case...
Declared Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "The bishop shot himself in the foot...
...spend $100,000 on Florio's behalf. The organization also plans to contact 50,000 specially selected G.O.P. and independent voters who might be persuaded to support him solely on the basis of his pro-choice stance. "Abortion is now a dominant issue in American politics," says Kate Michelman, NARAL's executive director. Pro-choice activists are doing everything they can to keep it that...
Another conflict arose at NOW's convention in Cincinnati three weeks ago, when delegates unanimously approved the notion of starting a third party around the woolly notions of sexual, environmental and economic freedom. Hearing that, NARAL executive director Kate Michelman interrupted her vacation in New Hampshire to criticize the third-party idea as "counterproductive." A pro-choice strategist dismissed Yard's notion as the "politics of 'screw you.' " Schneider agrees: "You punish your friends without blocking your enemies...