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...nearest funeral home owned by his brother-in-law. Then he would gather the facts. It was done this way: He would get the name of the dead person. If the man was "James Doe," he would go to the phone and call his downtown office and say, "James Roe" is dead. The downtown coroner would say "got it." He would write down "James Sloan" on his list of dead people. Then he would call a newsman and say "Blain Cohen is dead." And the next day, Blain Cohen would read it in the paper and have a heart attack...
Simpson's close to 760 publications include, "The Meaning of Evolution" (1949), "Tempo and Mode in Evolution" (1944) and "Quantitative Zoology" (1939) which he published with his wife. Anne Roe, professor emerita of the Graduate School of Education...
...guys are the old men," says Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The court, it would appear, is already primed for a switch; a single appointment might be all the shove that it needs. But even for a determinedly conservative court, reversing Roe would be a momentous step. Since so many women have relied on the decision, says Columbia's Blasi, to overturn it "would be Prohibition all over again...
Still, there are ways to trim back Roe without reversing it. Blackmun's majority opinion in Roe ruled that while women a right to "personal liber ty," the fetus has no rights its own until it can live outside the womb. The decision relied heavily on medical evidence that the fetus was not viable until about the seventh month of pregnancy, the third trimester. But recent advances in in fant care challenge that decade-old assumption. "It is certainly reasonable to believe that fetal viability in the first trimester of pregnancy may be possible in the not too distant...
...wrote a court-of-appeals opinion upholding the discharge of a Navy petty officer for homosexual conduct. Nowhere in "the text, structure or history of the Constitution" is there any "right to privacy" that would protect homosexual conduct, he concluded. Some experts think that Bork would vote to reverse Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on the ground that a woman's constitutional right to privacy outweighs the rights of a fetus until it can live outside the womb...