Word: roe
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After 22 hours of testimony, the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee extracted little from Thomas. He told them the Constitution embraced a right to privacy but refused to offer any thoughts on the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision. He did not repudiate his writings favoring the use of "natural law" but said they were the musings of a part-time political theorist and would have no bearing on his interpretation of the Constitution. The Democrats had to admit they were stymied. "Who this man really is, I don't really know," said Herbert Kohl...
...Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision, or some other court or Administration actions that cause large numbers of female Republicans to defect to the Democrats...
Weld said his legislation would repeal several now-unenforceable laws that could jeopardize abortion rights if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision...
...Roe v. Wade guaranteed abortion rights, but abortion rights supporters are worried that a now more conservative Supreme Court may overturn it or, at the very least, restrict its guarantees of abortion access...
...view that Washington's meddling in the Wichita case was, as he put it, "political." Having already made its point in the Operation Rescue case before the Supreme Court, the Administration had no new legal arguments to make other than, apparently, to underline its already well-known distaste for Roe. Vacationing in Kennebunkport, Me., President Bush was asked whether the Justice Department's actions condoned the pro-life pickets' defiance of court orders. Not so, he answered: "Everyone has the right to protest, but it ought to be done within the law." Fair enough. But there is not much doubt...