Word: roe
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...leadership to help. His education proposals came late and lacked the requisite funding--ditto for his bare-bones health care "policy." He has tightened the definition of wetlands and threatened to authorize off-shore drilling. He has nominated right-wingers to the Supreme Court who will try to overturn Roe v. Wade this summer...
...Roe V. Wade] has effectively been overturned already," Strossen said. "It is just a matter of time before the Webster ruling is enforced...
...Roe v. Wade is the 1973 landmark case which ruled state bans on abortion unconstitutional. In 1989, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the high court placed its first limitations on Roe...
Michelman spoke at length about her own pre-Roe abortion in 1970. "I know first-hand how absolutely essential Roe is to women's rights... Roe vs. Wade saved women from the shame, degradation and horror [of illegal abortions]," she said...
...Michelman said she was not optimistic about the future of abortion rights. "The court won't write `we overturn Roe vs. Wade,' but they'll uphold the Pennsylvania [challenge to Roe vs. Wade] and we'll lose our right to choose," said Michelman...