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Enfield added that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has lost its original force...
...Hardly. The President faces a gender gap of unprecedented proportions (in most surveys, women favor Bill Clinton by almost 20 points), a black hole attributable almost entirely to Bush's implacable hostility to choice and the widespread perception that the Supreme Court is only one Justice away from overturning Roe v. Wade, which constitutionally protects a woman's right to abortion. Now, at the worst possible time, the President has again vetoed Congress's repeal of the regulation that prohibits abortion counseling at 4,000 federally funded family-planning clinics that serve the $ poor -- a ban the Administration says...
...Abortion. Bush regularly declares, "My position on abortion hasn't changed." Well, not recently, anyway. Bush backed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision when he ran for President in 1980, but moved to the right as Vice President under Reagan during the 1980s and, in order to curry favor with the G.O.P. conservatives, eventually came to oppose the landmark decision...
Last week Imperial owner Emmett Roe, 65, was sentenced to 19 years 11 months in jail as part of a plea bargain that let his son Brad, the plant's operations manager, get off scot-free. Relatives of the dead were outraged, yet the owner's punishment was unusually strong for fire violations. "I can understand the pain of the community, but this is by far the stiffest sentence that I'm aware of for a worker-safety criminal charge," says Douglas Fuller, a spokesman for the Labor Department. That message will probably spread among plant managers around the country...
...Supreme Court came perilously close to overturning Roe last summer, and many of the nation's other federal judges oppose abortion rights. In the long term, we should work to pass pro-abortion rights legislation in the states. While we should not ignore legal fights, this battle should also be fought at the grass roots. Winning on this level will mean a more secure future for the right to choose...