Word: repealed
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...unmarried people having sex), traces a hig-gledy-piggledy pattern across the national map. Adultery is still illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union, which wages a campaign against the statutes whenever they are debated...
Shannon, a former U.S. representative, has been attorney general since 1987, using the post to launch a legal battle against the Seabrook nuclear power plant and to force the repeal of a school policy discriminating against employees with AIDS...
Major political positions: Silber opposes the Citizens for Limited Taxation tax repeal initiative, and has said he would campaign hard against the measure in the general election campaign. He says he personally considers abortion homicide, but stresses he would not limit abortion rights. To bring down the cost of health care, Silber has said he supports living wills, which would allow health professionals to cease heroic measures to keep people alive if they indicated they would not want such procedures. Silber says this is one way to keep down the cost of health care. He opposes the death penalty...
Major political positions: Silber opposes the Citizens for Limited Taxation tax repeal initiative, and has said he would campaign hard against the measure in the general election campaign. He says he personally considers abortion homicide, but stresses he would not limit abortion rights. To bring down the cost of health care, Silber has said he supports living wills, which would allow health professionals to cease heroic measures to keep people alive if they indicated they would not want such procedures. Silber says this is one way to keep down the cost of health care. He opposes the death penalty...
...right-wing agenda is the repeal of Roe v. Wade. O'Connor, the court's only woman, has seemed sympathetic to such a reversal but reluctant to provide the decisive vote in a court split 5 to 4 on the issue. But if another antiabortion Justice joined the bench, O'Connor could take refuge in a 6-to-3 majority...