Word: partially
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...1990s saw two significant changes in the pro-life campaigns, according to Smith. First, Smith said, members of those opposed to a right to abortion began to obstruct access to abortion clinics and killed a number of abortion-providers. Second, Smith said, protesters started the “ban partial-birth abortion” campaign. But despite increased protests, the courts largely protected abortion rights toward the end of the last decade. In 2003, however, Congress banned partial-birth abortions on the basis that they were not medically necessary. In reality, Smith said, these procedures safeguard against...
Trans fatty acids are a side product of the partial hydrogenation of plant oil. According to the National Academy of Sciences, “trans fatty acids are not essential and provide no known benefit to human health.” In fact, trans fats decrease levels of HDL ‘good’ cholesterol and increase levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol in the body. This directly increases a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke...
...Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results led him to give up partial custody of the boy and girl--"The anger grows and grows, and it just keeps chipping away at your love for those children," he says--and since his ex-wife moved to another state, he has had no contact with the twins. But under Colorado law, he is still required...
...while. But given that nothing in Iraq has gone according to plan, it seems more likely that it won't. That's why many in the military assume privately that a muscular-sounding surge now is chiefly designed to give Bush the political cover to execute a partial withdrawal on his terms later. "We think that by bringing the level of violence down and bringing the level of Iraqi support up, we will be able to begin to hand over the country," Kagan told TIME...
...Rodriguez is a liberal Democrat who voted against the Iraq war, against banning same-sex marriage, for partial birth abortion and for a boost in the minimum wage. Rodriguez had served seven years in Congress before losing his seat in the neighboring 28th congressional district in 2004 after DeLay's redistricting plan anchored the district in Laredo, away from Rodriguez's home base in San Antonio. The new district favored Laredo resident and conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar, who beat Rodriguez by just 58 votes in the primary. Rodriguez challenged incumbent Congressman Cuellar again this year in the March primary...