Word: partially
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...NARAL Pro-Choice America. About the best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense of the procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who made the sassy declaration that the Christian right should meet "the right Christians...
...words sounded empty, more of a grudging partial credit from Prasse-Freeman than anything resembling an inflated A. He knew that both games this weekend were winnable, even though the annual trip to Princeton and Penn is usually when the season dies...
...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...
...critics, its language and violence are not much more explicit than what we've already seen on network TV. An attention-getting moment in the pilot--a gangster feeds a human leg to his pet tiger--is no more graphic than many scenes in CSI; there is fleeting partial nudity, but sadly for anyone hoping for a reprise of the Bada Bing club, it's an old man exposing a hint of pubic hair. The real risk it takes is that, like The Sopranos, Kingpin puts bad guys front and center. Bobby Cannavale, who plays Miguel's brother, played...