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...fact, it was just on Oct. 2 when the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill preventing doctors from performing a procedure that pro-life advocates have named “partial-birth” abortions. Last year, a similar bill was passed in the Senate and President George W. Bush has publicly declared he would sign it into law—marking the first time Congress will restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade...
...Supreme Court in Roe recognized a woman’s right to make her own childbearing decisions, including the right to choose abortion. However, the “partial-birth” ban should signal to all that this hard-won constitutional right is in grave danger. In addition to a Republican-dominated Congress, the presence of an anti-choice president in the White House and the retirement of even one Supreme Court Justice could pave the way for Roe to be overturned...
...NARAL Pro-Choice America have joined together for the first time ever to organize a march on Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 25, 2004. Women have struggled hard to achieve the rights they enjoy today, but the battle for their rights has just begun. With the passage of the partial-birth abortion ban, now is the time to realize a danger that the Bush administration poses to the woman’s right to control her own body. Without action, the protections guaranteed under Roe could soon become obsolete...
While bin Laden probably did not anticipate the rapid collapse of the Taliban, he has nonetheless achieved partial success. Relations between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. are at their lowest point in decades. During this year’s invasion of Iraq, the Saudis refused to allow us to conduct conspicuous military operations from their soil, and the majority of U.S. forces stationed there have been withdrawn. We have invaded Iraq and deposed a regime that bin Laden hated only slightly less than the United States, but was nonetheless incapable of openly challenging himself. The popular response on the Arab...
...parents came form Iceland. Our family name is rather difficult to pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when he entered broadcast journalism in 1959, he shed the unpronounceable trappings of his Icelandic heritage and went simply by John Harvard...