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When the House of Representatives voted last week to overturn President Clinton's veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion, some opponents saw more politics than principle behind the gesture. How better to portray Clinton as an extremist than by reminding voters that he had defended a practice that big majorities find repugnant? What better gift to give Bob Dole, as he searches for the wedge issues that might give him traction with the conservative and Roman Catholic voters who should form the base of his support...
Though no one has reliable figures, experts estimate that partial-birth abortion accounts for perhaps 600 of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. Its rarity, however, takes nothing away from its horror, and all along, the symbolic importance of the issue has driven both sides of the debate. The ban that passed earlier this year was the first attempt by Congress to outlaw a specific abortion procedure in the 23 years since the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade...
...partial eclipse began at 9:12 p.m. when the moon entered the dark, central part of the Earth's shadow. The total lunar eclipse lasted from...
...next total lunar eclipse visible from Harvard will not occur until January 20, 2000, although there will be a very deep partial lunar eclipse on March...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Now that the Senate has failed to override President Clinton's veto of a bill that would ban partial-birth abortions, the issue is off the legislative table for the year, but look for it in the televised presidential debates. That could potentially do serious political damage to Clinton, says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "This is one of the few issues in which the Republicans clearly have the polls on their side," she says. "I'm not surprised they plan to use it to make Clinton look like an extremist." To save himself from...