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...process surrounding abortions--state rules requiring parental consent, spousal notice, waiting periods, information, record keeping--and not the abortion procedures themselves. However, Stenberg v. Carhart, argued last Tuesday before the court, gives the justices an opportunity to clarify the constitutionality of bans on certain abortion procedures, specifically so-called "partial-birth abortions." In the past five years, 30 states have enacted bans on partial-birth abortions, 18 of which have been blocked by federal or state courts...
...plaintiff in the abortion case scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court this week. It will be the first abortion case Justices have heard in eight years, and will test whether Nebraska and other states have the right to ban what has come to be called as partial-birth abortions. In the 1992 decision known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Justices by a single vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to choose abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. But they said the states had some leeway to regulate...
...Partial birth isn't a medical term, but it has come to mean the process known as dilation and extraction. In this procedure, a woman's cervix is partly dilated to allow much of the fetus to emerge; a tube is then inserted into its skull and the contents suctioned out, allowing the head to emerge as well. Doctors like Carhart believe it is sometimes the safest way--least harmful to the woman's reproductive system--to remove a fetus of that size. The problem, doctors argue, is that state laws banning this method use language so vague that...
Nebraska attorney general Don Stenberg, who is the leading G.O.P. contender for the state's open Senate seat, says Nebraskans think partial-birth abortion is "barbaric." And in most polls on the issue, a majority of Americans say they would favor making it illegal. Congress has marched in step, passing partial-birth bans by overwhelming margins, though not quite enough to override President Clinton's vetoes. But abortion-rights supporters say a better measure of public opinion is the vote in the three states where the issue has been on the ballot and voters have become more informed...
...decreasing government spending and opening some sectors of the economy to foreign competition. One of the first casualties of these programs were corrupt and insolvent banking systems, from which the politically connected had been able to receive economically unjustified loans; the cleansing of the banking system has been given partial credit for the recent resurgence of growth in countries like South Korea. Additional casualties of such restrictions, however, were the social spending that fell under the budget ax and the societal cohesion disrupted by economic restructuring and turmoil...