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...cited the mothers of American feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as the pioneers of the pro-life movement and as evidence that feminism and a pro-life stance are compatible. According to Foster, Stanton called abortion “infanticide, feticide, and murder.” Foster said in her speech that the pro-choice movement originated in the 1970s with two men who were the founders of NARAL Pro-Choice America, not from Betty N. Friedan and Gloria N. Steinem, the founders of the National Organization for Women. She argued that Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader...
...misconceived "new town," built in the 1960s and promoted as an urban utopia, Craigavon looks like the forlorn kind of place where nothing ever happens. Last night, just 48 hours after the murder of two British soldiers by a dissident republican terrorist group, it saw the kind of action Northern Ireland thought it had left behind for good. A policeman, Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, was shot dead in a nationalist area of the town - northern Irish conurbations still tend to be divided along political and religious lines. Carroll was the first officer to be shot dead in Northern Ireland...
...claimed responsibility for this latest attack, and suspicions naturally pointed to the Real IRA, the group behind last Saturday's double murder at an army barracks in Antrim. On Tuesday morning, another splinter group, Continuity IRA, said they were behind the latest murder. Both groups were started by members of the Provisional IRA, who disagreed with the peace process, but have recently recruited younger members. They remain tiny organizations but the attacks raise the spectre of a new campaign of terrorist violence; something most people in Northern Ireland had thought they would never see again. (See TIME's photos...
...staring into the abyss," said Dolores Kelly, a local representative of the moderate, nationalist SDLP party at the scene of last night's murder. "All of us have to get together to pull ourselves away from the brink. A tiny handful of people cannot be allowed to destroy so much...
...after Saturday's murders in Antrim, Sinn Fein may be forced to eat their words. During the Troubles, the party normally refused to condemn the murder of security force personnel, but in today's post-conflict Northern Ireland, the rules of the game have changed. The party's president Gerry Adams described the attacks as "wrong and counter-productive." "[The perpetrators] want to destroy the progress of recent times and to plunge Ireland back into conflict", he said...