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...recent years a number of state laws restricting abortion have been winding through lower-court challenges toward a final showdown in the Supreme Court. Tracking their progress has been like witnessing a car crash in slow motion, because any of them might lead to an explosive ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that created abortion rights...
...office. Women's groups christened 1990 the Political Year of the Woman, but only one of the seven women who ran for the Senate last year, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected; she voted for Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take up Senator John Danforth's civil rights bill, which for the first time would award compensatory damages to victims...
Ironically, many women are hoping that their movement will get a strong boost next year if the Supreme Court decides to overturn or restrict the abortion rights granted by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Major decisions are often handed down in late June or early July, at the end of the court's annual session. An antiabortion ruling then would give speakers at the Democrats' July convention the ammunition to denounce the work of G.O.P.-appointed Justices. Republicans have reason to worry: the issue divides their party and has already cost them the governorships of Virginia, New Jersey...
...plan, originally passed by Congress in 1989 as part of a whole passle of new immigration rules, is both cynical and unfair--and Congress should overturn...
...Wade guaranteed abortion rights, but abortion rights supporters are worried that a now more conservative Supreme Court may overturn it or, at the very least, restrict its guarantees of abortion access...