Word: nebraska
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They said it was horse manure, but Mary Carhart says no. "It was hog manure," she scoffs. "We know horses, and this was not horse manure." But there it was, 12 in. deep, spread over 40 ft. of walkway and steps leading to the Abortion and Contraception Clinic of Nebraska...
...their way in. But all that harassment pales next to the day in 1991 when arsonists burned down the farm of Mary and her husband Dr. LeRoy Carhart, 58, who runs the clinic. The fire killed 17 horses, and police never arrested anyone. On that day--the day Nebraska's parental-notification law went into effect and the day his daughter turned 21, the doctor decided abortion "would be my life's work...
...colonel who was head of surgery at nearby Offutt Air Force Base, has wound up as the plaintiff in the abortion case scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court this week. It will be the first abortion case Justices have heard in eight years, and will test whether Nebraska and other states have the right to ban what has come to be called as partial-birth abortions. In the 1992 decision known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Justices by a single vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to choose abortion...
...read this, one out of every 140 U.S. citizens is behind bars. More people live in prison than in each of the following states: West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Nebraska, Maine, Idaho, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Montana, South Dakota, Delaware, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, and Wyoming...
Powell and Mitchell are both remarkable individuals and would be superb additions to their respective tickets--if they can be persuaded to join the race. To be sure, they are not the only favorable candidates. Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is a Vietnam veteran and campaign finance reformer straight from the McCain mold. On a Bush ticket, he would likely appeal to many of the same voters that McCain was able to bring into the political arena. California Sen. Diane Feinstein has also had a distinguished legislative career and supports gun control, abortion rights and health care initiatives. Either would...