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...Supreme Court clearly intended to forestall just this kind of confrontation by its 1973 decision in the case of Roe vs. Wade. Speaking for the 7-to-2 majority, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun ruled that women have a constitutional right to an abortion for at least the first six months of pregnancy. It was bitterly attacked by some legal scholars as well as pro-life advocates, but the decision has basically remained the law of the land despite Supreme Court decisions that subsequently nibbled away at the hard edges of the ruling. Last week, for example, in a case involving...
...Since Roe vs. Wade, the annual number of abortions performed in the U.S. has risen from...
...become perhaps the most powerful single-issue force in American politics. It helped secure Ronald Reagan the Republican presidential nomination last year and contributed to the defeat of such pro-choice Senators as Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. Every Jan. 22, on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the antiabortion forces march on Washington, sending a red rose-the symbol of their cause-to each member of Congress. Nellie Gray, organizer of this March for Life, warns that legislators who vote for abortion "will be held accountable, just as the Nuremberg trials found individuals personally responsible...
...Right groups, plus individuals who feel a deep moral commitment to protecting unborn human life. Legalized abortion, they believe, not only contributes to a breakdown of traditional family values, but is tantamount to genocide. Their ultimate goal is a "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution that would reverse Roe vs. Wade. The amendment would simply guarantee the right to life to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. A shorter-term strategy-so far largely successful-has been to halt federal funding for abortion through Medicaid. Meanwhile, across the country, in virtually every session of every state legislature, pro-lifers...
...their respective interests, the arts and sea life. The National Symphony fiddled through Rimsky-Korsakov last week to mellow members of Congress who must vote on endangered federal funds for the arts. Wherever one dines these days in Washington, there is, over the $50 (for two) lunches of shad roe or the $100 (for two) dinners of partridge, a whole new vocabulary. Men and women who used to cut deals, apply pressure and give each other the treatment now talk about safety nets, marginal tax rates and econometric models...