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...always been an ardent abortion foe, so abortion-rights groups view his nomination as "akin to the appointment of George Wallace to be Attorney General in the 1960s," says Rosemary Dempsey, Washington director of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. In 1998 Ashcroft sponsored a constitutional amendment to outlaw all abortions except those needed to save the life of the mother. Bush allows for exceptions in cases of rape or incest, but Ashcroft didn't. His proposal defined human life as beginning at fertilization, which women's groups say could have meant that not only abortion but also birth...
Today's ballot also includes citizen-initiated proposals to outlaw greyhound racing, give greater tax benefits to charitable contributions and revise laws related to drug crimes, to place a greater emphasis on drug treatment and to use proceeds of drug-related property seizures to go to treatment...
...mainstreaming of Napster - and the capitulation of Big Music to the looming future of a music business without $15 plastic discs - began Tuesday with a surprise deal between the online free-music outlaw and German publishing giant Bertelsmann (home of BMG, one of music's Big Five). The upshot: Napster just changed the "free...
...cause of one America. A leader must stand up against the forces of bigotry and make national unity a top priority. Vice President Al Gore '69 has led on civil rights and he will continue to lead with a new Civil Rights Bill for the year 2001 to outlaw racial profiling and increase the enforcement of laws against hate crimes...
Clearly, the fact that it is so easy to copy digital material makes it hard to outlaw doing so, and people seem inclined to do what is easy and fun. Theft in the digital world, whether of software or of songs, does not seem to carry the moral freighting of theft in the material world--of shoplifting a CD, for example. Yet the fact that we may not be able to prevent theft on a small scale does not mean we should condone it on a large scale...