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Even so, the antiabortion forces are picking their shots carefully and, the other side concedes, shrewdly. Rather than trying to overturn Roe v. Wade entirely, they are focusing on more narrow questions that tap into the nation's deep ambivalence about abortion. "We are not trying to come in and suddenly make radical changes," said freshman Republican Enid Greene Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much...
...Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, Friedattempted to overturn the Roe v. Wadedecision. He currently says that he will upholdreproductive rights laws...
Lewis, who will succeed Jewett on July 1, is not likely to overturn the decision...
...pass in the final two seconds of the Super Bowl, Jack Carter conceded that Lopez had indeed broken the law-and then went on to argue that the law itself was wrong. Thirty-seven months and two appeals later, the obscure public defender persuaded five Supreme Court Justices to overturn a law that several hundred legislators and the President of the U.S. had already approved...
...indications from the University indicate this is a closed matter," Liston said. "I think it takes a more drastic step to overturn that [decision] than merely a letter or a telephone conversation...