Word: roe
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Peregrinations such as these have made O'Connor a moving target for antiabortion forces, who are determined to see her provide the decisive fifth vote to overturn or at least neutralize Roe v. Wade. Their goal is to send before the court a succession of laws that will chip away at her ill-defined middle ground, until it is too narrow to stand...
Though she has been unwilling to overturn Roe altogether, O'Connor has voted in favor of several state laws that would restrict abortion. She wrote in a 1983 decision that she could accept such limitations so long as they were not "unduly burdensome" to a pregnant woman. That left open a big question: Just what burdens would the Justice consider too heavy? "This legal fight over abortion is like a game of stud poker," says Roger Evans, an attorney for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Each decision forces Justice O'Connor to turn over one more card revealing what...
...under review (which forbids the use of state funds for abortions). But she balked at the opportunity to let history record that the Supreme Court's first woman was also the one who provided the crucial vote to end abortion rights. "There will be time enough to re-examine Roe," she wrote, "and to do so carefully...
...twelve windows represented in "Masterworks" pulse with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...
Recently, it has been rumored that Barbara Bush may be more liberal than her husband. News reports even hinted that the Bush family was seriously divided between those who Roe'd and those who Wade...