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...recent debates about so-called "partial-birth" abortions symbolize the loose-cannon and irresponsible rhetoric which have been used by anti-abortionists. These late-term abortions, rarely performed and then often only to save a woman's life or prevent severe health risks, have become the picture of an abortion procedure in many American's minds thanks to vivid, if not technically accurate, descriptions of the procedure. Such gross-out tactics do not help to inform a debate upon which women's lives, livelihoods and freedoms depend. The avoidance-shuffle that candidates have been performing around the issue has allowed...
...This partial participation was typical of schools at the conference. If every Ivy League college had submitted a report at each of the eight breakout sessions, there would be 64 reports in total. But delegates actually submitted just 42 reports...
Letalien said that while he is not satisfied with Driskell's partial apology, he will not reintroduce his motion to censure Driskell--though he would support censure legislation were someone else to propose...
...Andrew Zagorin. While economists don't predict that the high oil prices alone could drive inflation in the U.S., it could certainly have an impact on consumer behavior - and thus potentially slow down the high-revving American economy. Auto industry analysts are already pointing to oil prices as a partial culprit in the recent drop-off of SUV sales...
Third, even in the unlikely event there is a cure for those presently paralyzed, it will at best be partial. The idea so dramatized in the Super Bowl commercial--that someone with a completely severed cord will actually walk--is very farfetched. Walking is a hugely complex motor and feedback activity. Look at how long it takes babies, who have totally intact nervous systems, to learn it. Look at how, despite decades of research to develop robots that walk, they remain primitive, often comical. Perhaps the long-injured will enjoy some partial return, some movement in the hands or chest...