Word: roe
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...They wrinkle their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear-cut public policy. Dole and Gramm wriggle out of answering the key questions: Would you support a human-life amendment to the Constitution? And would you seek to overturn Roe v. Wade by appointing Supreme Court Justices pledged...
...also his pro-choice heart. Not liking abortion is his claim to being pro-life; his stance looks more pro-choice: "I would try to keep the Federal Government entirely out of abortion: no subsidy-no encouragement, no prohibition." He favors neither enacting a human-life amendment nor overturning Roe. He would send abortion back to the states, although states cannot stop abortions, only impose waiting periods and parental notification...
...anything new be said about abortion? after more than a quarter-century of frenzied debate and denunciation (which began well before Roe v. Wade), one might think not. But there is at least one viewpoint that polls indicate is widely held but that is hardly ever heard amid the screams of "Murderer!" and "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries!" It deserves a full and reasoned exposition, however; it might even shed some light on the controversies about the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General and about harassment of abortion clinics. It is that abortion is justifiable only...
...fact make inevitable, absent some violent interruption-its development into a full human person. And this development is a continuum; there is no point before birth at which one may draw a line and say the nature of the developing fetus has changed totally-no, not even between trimesters, Roe to the contrary. Abortion at any point snuffs out a potential human life and can be justified only by the gravest reasons...
Unfortunately, fundamentalism can't be quelled in one powerful stroke. Fundamentalism had been simmering along the Bible belt for years; it slowly came into vogue all over the nation after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision...