Word: overturned
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...Michelman said she was not optimistic about the future of abortion rights. "The court won't write `we overturn Roe vs. Wade,' but they'll uphold the Pennsylvania [challenge to Roe vs. Wade] and we'll lose our right to choose," said Michelman...
...subcommittee will overturn the standingdecision only if Harvard can prove previousrulings did not apply precedents correctly,according to Wickerham...
...question requires minors to get parental consent and wives to notify their husbands before having abortions. It also obliges doctors to inform abortion seekers about potential medical complications and mandates a 24-hour waiting period. Though the court could use the case to overturn Roe, it is more likely to rule narrowly on the merits of the Pennsylvania law. That could still open the way to a flood of other state restrictions...
...with the additions of David H. Souter '61 and Clarence Thomas, the Court is even more conservative than in 1989. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's middle-of-the-road tie-breaking position prevented an overturn in 1989, when four justices were prepared for reversal and four were opposed. Now two of four supporters of Roe are gone...
...overturn of Roe next summer would surely set the tone for the July and August nominating conventions in New York and Houston--as civil rights issues did in 1948 and as the Vietnam War did in 1968. The difference is that this time, the Republicans will have the convention-floor bloodbath. And the Democrats will benefit...