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WHILE recent public attention has centered on whether or not the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and thereby return the regulation of abortion to state legislatures, the increasingly conservative Supreme Court has already undercut another fundamental right--that to education...
Unless Israel and the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) justify their handling of the Demjanjuk case, Israel's Supreme Court should overturn that death sentence...
...were to rule that life begins at conception, not only would abortion be legally considered murder, but oral contraception and the IUD, which prevent initial implantation of the embryo in the lining of the uterus, would also become illegal. Fortunately, it is unlikely that the Court will rule to overturn the District Court's decision on this point...
...decision to overturn Roe would be much more than a return to the time of illegal abortion. The 1973 decision was not a ruling on the morality of abortion. Instead, it was a decision that a woman and her doctor should be allowed to handle the matter privately, without interference from the state...
What anti-abortion activists often seem to forget is that a woman's right to have an abortion is intimately tied to a woman's right not to have an abortion. To overturn Roe would be to decide that the state could make the most private of a woman's choices for her. If the Court rules that the state may deny a woman an abortion, it is, by extension, implying that the state could force an abortion...