Word: roe
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...that the policy violates constitutional guarantees of privacy, equal protection and due process. "There is no constitutional right to welfare," protests Bryant. "Therefore the state can make conditions." True, says NOW, but not in ways that violate constitutional mandates. Said NOW New Jersey's president Myra Terry: "We have Roe v. Wade that says women have the right to choose, not some women based on their economic capacity...
Should a woman lie to obtain an abortion? Norma McCorvey thought so when she cried rape 20 years ago. The ruse failed and she was forced to have the baby, but McCorvey became "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing reproductive freedom. Today, with the right to choose protected, the equal exercise of that right is in jeopardy, and important abortion proponents are urging women to follow McCorvey's example -- a strategy the Clinton Administration may eventually endorse, if only implicitly...
...center of the controversy, then, is a double standard. With Roe as their shield, the better-off do as they please. For the poor, though, and for those without health insurance, choice is meaningless without the means to choose. Only 13 states voluntarily fund abortions for those who can't afford them; the poor elsewhere are looking to Clinton to save them from the back alley. But Clinton's options are limited by the Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially...
...could be gone in '96 if we don't. We'll drop 'medically necessary' if we have to, but maybe the language that would permit abortions if women fib will survive. It may be immoral to say women should lie, but too many have struggled for too long despite Roe as the law -- and that's immoral...
...lack of understanding is further shown when he suggested that Roe v. Wade should be done away with so citizens within a state could have the "choice" to make abortion legal or not where they live. Fact: Abortion is legal. Allowing states the option of outlawing abortion (and states such as Louisiana and Utah surely would) immediately takes away a woman's 'choice' over her own body. That is what the entire abortion debate is about; does a woman have the right to control her own body? We of the pro-choice majority say "Yes! Any other obvious questions...