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...Burger Court of the 1970s has proved less liberal, but it is hardly a model of judicial restraint. Rather, it is what scholars call "selectively activist," which some say means that its activism depends on whether or not it likes the result. One of its most activist decisions remains Roe vs. Wade (1973), which found in the Constitution an implicit right for women to have abortions. Although equal protection has of late been invoked less in the cause of the poor and the black, it has been extended to just about everyone else, including aliens, bastards and even...
...defense is the only area that appeared to bother Scalise as he contemplated the season yesterday. Having lost goalie Irene Kacandes, and fullbacks Natalie Roe and Rian Smith, who are all taking the year off, the defense is somewhat disorganized, although still talented...
Replacing Roe and Smith are two booters just learning to play the fullback position; Sally Kingsberg, a backup striker to St. Louis last year, has had a short apprenticeship at right fullback, and Stefi Baum, a junior joining the team for the first time, is at center full...
...legislature did not outlaw abortion, as it could not go against the 1975 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade--a decision that many legal scholars have attacked as weak, and which may well be subject to reversal in the future. Rather, it simply stated that the state would not sanction, with public funds, a procedure it had judged to be immoral. Forced to accept abortion as legal, it refused to tolerate it as right, or to force the public to pay for it with their tax money...
...blacked-out stupor, he is bilked of his home, and gangsters lie in wait for him. The son (Ebbe Roe Smith), a touching fool-in-Christ figure, simply wants to hang onto a place that is already lost, and the daughter (Pamela Reed) plans to retrieve the loss by becoming an efficient criminal...