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...front page and the top of the evening news. Discussions on abortion are more volatile than they have been since the Supreme Court affirmed a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy in 1972. The 71,000 "profilers" who marched in Washington on January 22, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, were a forceful indication of the strong attention now being paid to abortion. President Reagan took heed of the crowd and addressed the marchers directly, saying "I Want you to0 know I feel these days as never before; the momentum is with...
...life movement believes that Roe VS. Wade was a mistake, but to direct the rhetorical force of his protest against women as murderers is not to state a view, but to level an irresponsible accusation. It is not surprising that some individuals have acted, violently upon such an accusation. The words of the pro-life movement can be as powerful and potentially destructive as bombs-perhaps more so because they threaten not a mere building but the very foundations of a civilized society the foundations which provide a ground for debate on controversial issues in a principle of toleration...
...seafood mousse and exotic wild mushrooms in between. The selections reflected those of stylish restaurants around the country. Caterers proudly described their offerings as light, pretty, fresh, American and, above all, Californian. Almost conspiratorially, they whispered of such unsimple fare as French truffles, Caspian caviar and roe-trimmed scallops from Holland...
...Gooen's argument about the distinctions between quickened and pre-quickened fetuses is quite irrelevant. First, such locomotion, coming along with the development of EEG waves and other undeniably human qualities, comes as early as the sixth week of pregnancy, but even under conservative interpretations of Roe abortions are routinely performed up until the 24th week. Second, of course, Roe is not conservatively interpreted: the part of the decision that bars state prohibitions even in the third trimester in cases where the health of the mother is endangered has been so liberally construed as to include such open-ended absurdities...
...should hire the police to stop as many of them as we can. But second, empirically, legal abortions, since 1973, have taken a 120-fold increase, while illegal abortions have taken a four-fold decrease. On balance, there are 40 times the number of abortions now as before Roe, 1.5 million per year...