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Antiabortion forces celebrated a victory last week when Congress passed a bill barring so-called partial-birth abortion. But many observers--Democrats as well as some conservatives--doubt that the bill (which President Bush has vowed to sign into law) will be upheld by the Supreme Court since it differs little from a Nebraska law struck down by the high court by a 5-to-4 vote in 2000. The court ruled that because the Nebraska law did not contain an exception for cases in which the mother's health is at stake, it was unconstitutional. The new measure also...
...procedure has been greatly distorted as proponents have politicized the practice, dubbing it “partial-birth abortion” and barraging Congressional discourse with anecdotal narratives entailing grisly depictions of the procedure. They fail, of course, to iterate that this procedure is used in less than one percent of abortion cases, is the safest method of second-trimester abortion and is often essential in protecting the life of the woman—clearly one of the more salient details in its defense...
While we have disagreed with their consistent support of abortion rights in the past, it is completely beyond our understanding why, unlike 70 percent of Americans, The Staff feels compelled to support partial birth abortion, a procedure that oversteps all moral and ethical limits...
...think after two years of TV,” he said, “I’ve become more partial to print...
...award, which was announced Monday by Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., marks the 10th consecutive year that the Department of State has given partial funding to the program...