Word: presidental
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The recent attack on abortion has taken a variety of forms, all of which jeopardize women's Constitutional rights. On Sept. 19, the House of Representatives voted to override President Clinton's veto of the bill banning a late-term abortion procedure commonly known as "partial-birth" abortions. While the...
The extremely rare procedure is used to terminate a pregnancy in its last stages, usually if the mother's health is endangered. The President vetoed the ban on the procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is...
Over 30 states have passed some sort of ban on partial-birth abortions, but 20 of them have been blocked or restricted in enforcing the ban by the courts. Just a day after the Senate failed to override the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion bill, a federal...
HPRE selected Hollein from a talented field of potential designers, according to Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard associate vice-president and head of HPRE. Even without a design in hand, Spiegelman said she is confident of Hollein's abilities.
If President Clinton had hoped that a new face in the Kremlin might help quell the United States' disquiet over the Chechnyan situation, he was to be disappointed. The President met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Oslo on Tuesday, urging the former KGB colonel to go easy on the...