Word: roe
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...Casey Supreme Court decision in 1992re-interpreted the ground-breaking Roe v.Wade (1973) decision which legalized abortionfor the first time. In Casey, the courtmandated a 24-hour waiting period between the timea woman approaches her doctor with the request foran abortion and the time when the operation isperformed...
Senator Spector told the audience that he stands by Roe v. Wade. When asked about whether he would stand by a decision like Dred Scott, he said something along the lines of, "Um, that's different..." What this response illustrates is that the Supreme Court isn't always so supreme to Senator Specter...
Specter defended himself by pointing to relevant Supreme Court decisions, including Roe v. Wade...
Strident anti-abortion warriorsOperation Rescueset up shop today in the same Dallas office building as the health clinic that employs the woman whose landmark 1973 court case legalized abortion in the U.S. Only an interior wall separates the neighbors. Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, told Reuters she is not exactly thrilled with her new neighbors, but the clinic has no intention of moving out: "We are here for the duration."Operation Rescue'snational director Flip Benham said: "It's a tremendous place. At the killing center, at the gates of Hell, is where the church...
...wants the government off people's backs and out of their bedrooms. Therefore he is opposed to spending federal funds on abortion. But then it gets murky. Last month he said he would not use a litmus test for choosing Supreme Court Justices based on whether they would overturn Roe. He was quoted in the Boston Herald as saying, "One of the things we have to do is learn to live with the fact that there are differences of opinion on this issue." Gramm supported a human-life amendment in the past,when there was no hope of passing...