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...wait 24 hours after hearing a state-prepared presentation about adoption and child-support alternatives, among other things. By okaying the law, or most parts of it, the court would invite other states to introduce new restrictions of their own. Next year the nine Justices may entirely reverse Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed abortion rights; states would then have the option of banning abortion outright...
...reality in most American communities is that two decades of moral and religious reflection, legal maneuvering and political assaults have combined to do precisely what conservatives promised when Roe was handed down: roll back the Supreme Court ruling until it is no longer the law of the land. Now, in the noisy streets and legislatures and the bare chambers of the individual conscience, that most fundamental question -- Who decides whether a woman can have an abortion? -- must itself be redecided. With that, America is entering new moral and political territory, rough and uncharted, but lit by the phosphor of righteous...
...Right is not the only group guilty of falsely presenting women's voice and viewpoints as more political--i.e., more tainted, subjective, unreasonable, dangerous and evil--than those of others. Just this week, for example, The New York Times argued in its editorial on Roe v. Wade that pro-choice feminist activists were wrong to "raise doubts that we are a government of laws, not men." Just as The Times continues to hold that journalism is completely "objective"--forgetting its own biases in covering the William Kennedy Smith trial--in this case the paper illustrates what is either a naive...
...again that he has no backbone or true conviction. In recent months he has been an ardent pro-lifer, responding in part to the harsh attacks mounted by his ultra-conservative challenger, Patrick Buchanan. He has supported the movement that is gaining steam throughout the country to reverse Roe v. Wade...
...have no money left to support them. The New York Times reports that half the students at the John Hopkins School of Medicine say they will not perform abortions when they are doctors. This is indicative of the pace at which our country is moving towards a reversal of Roe v. Wade, and the increased difficulty women have in getting an abortion...