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...There were 2,714, nearly double the required number. the senate later voted 54-6 in favor of the bill. The trustees have yet to decide whether they will reconsider the issue at their next meeting in June. Meanwhile, the reversal measure's initial success has earned praise from NARAL Pro Choice America's Kate Michelman and an offer from Choice USA for Schnebel and another advocate to attend a five-day summer training program at the Gloria Steinem Leadership Institute. But Schnebel insists that she is not interested in a political career. She plans to pursue a master...
...worried that he comes across as too calculating--which is why more than a few say they wish he would do something, anything, from his gut. It didn't happen last week, when all six candidates appeared for the first time together, at a dinner in Washington sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America. About the best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense of the procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion...
...nationally, from nearly 2,400 in 1992, and 87% of U.S. counties have none at all, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Another indicator: this month the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, the abortion-rights movement's leading organization, officially changed its name for the fourth time, to NARAL Pro-Choice America, dropping the word abortion and adopting the acronym instead...
...Parenthood v. Casey, opened the door for states to impose greater limits on the right to an abortion, activists have taken up the fight state by state, measure by measure. In the past seven years, 335 new restrictions have been put on the books around the country, according to NARAL. Most common are parent-notification laws, required waiting periods, and state-mandated lectures and literature about fetal development and alternatives to abortion such as adoption. In Alabama, women have to get sonograms before they can end their pregnancies. While a few states such as California have liberalized their laws...
...like him, it won't change the calculus, though abortion will still loom huge in confirmation hearings. But when it's Sandra Day O'Connor's turn to go or that of any of the others who have upheld Roe, the stakes will be enormous. If Roe is overturned, NARAL predicts that 12 states are likely to ban abortion in all or most circumstances, and five others might...