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With Congress and the White House in G.O.P. hands, abortion foes will push this year to get a ban on the late-term procedure they call partial-birth abortion passed (as it has been twice already) and signed into law (President Bill Clinton vetoed it both times). But G.O.P. strategists concede it is unlikely that other measures--like a bill to make it a separate crime to injure a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman or legislation making it illegal to evade state parent-notification laws by taking a minor across state lines--will become priorities...
...nomination of the staunchly evangelical, antiabortion John Ashcroft for Attorney General and the decision not to provide taxpayer funds to develop additional fetal-stem-cell lines for medical research. But other moves barely made a ripple by comparison. A year ago, the Administration filed a brief supporting Ohio's partial-birth-abortion ban in an appellate court (not waiting, as it normally would, for the case to hit the Supreme Court). A few months later, it quietly removed from a government website information saying that abortions do not increase the risk of breast cancer. (A replacement fact sheet suggests...
...partial-birth ban, if enacted, would be the biggest federal antiabortion initiative since the mid-1970s, when the government banned use of federal funds to provide abortions for poor women. But it is certain to face a legal challenge, and has lost in the courts before. In 2000 the Supreme Court knocked down all state partial-birth bans because they defined the procedure in ways that also included the most common type of second-trimester abortion and offered no exception to preserve a woman's health or life...
...Nabil, Sonia and Tamara don't belong to that crowd. These young people don't hate the U.S. They don't feel threatened by American culture, they embrace it. Sonia likes parties, rock 'n' roll music and never misses an episode of Friends. Tamara is partial to Hollywood blockbusters, particularly those starring Bruce Willis or Sandra Bullock. Nabil affects a faux New York accent to go with his fading 501s and Tommy Hilfiger jacket, and says he is in love with "that tough girl on TV - Buffy...
...least, the nation's second largest long-distance company has been able to hold on to the bulk of its big, valuable corporate and government accounts, though many such customers are exploring other options. It has also grabbed some local residential customers from the Baby Bells, reached a partial settlement with the SEC and built up a healthy cash reserve of close to $2 billion. Most important, it has lured former Compaq head and Hewlett-Packard president Michael Capellas to take on the reclamation project...