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...refusal to reconsider the repeal of the Guam law, the majority opinion cited the argument of "undue burden" to attack the legality of preventing women from having abortions. The justices lifted this argument from last summer's Casey v. Planned Parenthood ruling that fundamentally upheld 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The National Right to Life Committee called the decision "disappointing but unsurprising...
...sometime in the past 12 months, a generation of women woke up to the possibility that what they had taken for granted could also be taken away. As the Supreme Court began to nibble at Roe v. Wade, "choice" took on the moral urgency that in another generation had been reserved for Vietnam. And then came "Hill-Thomas." The visual that lingers shows 14 white men confronting a species of human being that they would normally encounter only in the form of a hotel maid. Little clicks of raised consciousness could be heard throughout the land as women plotted...
...going to say about a subject by what organization you belong to or what school you went to. If there's one thing that I try very hard to do, it's to think through every position for myself. I'm very strongly pro-choice, but I think Roe v. Wade should be overruled. I'm also, although I'm a strong advocate of freedom of choice, a strong opponent of Clinton's making that a litmus test for a nomination to the Supreme Court. So, You know, my opinions come out unpredictable in many ways. I'm a strongly...
...What is a right to choose when the weakest in our society don't have access to that right? Only the shell of Roe v. Wade remains," Enfield said...