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...will be a President who happens to be Catholic, not a Catholic President." Still, when Kennedy ran for President in 1960, a candidate could go through an entire campaign without ever having to declare his position on abortion--much less stem cells, cloning or gay marriage. It was before Roe v. Wade, bioethics, school vouchers, gay rights and a host of other social issues became the ideological fault lines that divide the two political parties and also divide some Catholics from their church...
Chipping at Roe v. Wade; Europe gets a new terrorism czar; political books; Star Wars' latest bugs...
...laws. "This bill is about simple justice," said Republican Senator Mike DeWine. But pro-choice advocates fear that treating an unborn fetus as a person in such crimes will lead to treating a fetus the same way in cases of abortion. The pro-life forces are "chipping away at Roe v. Wade and women's rights to privacy and freedom of choice," says Kate Michelman, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America...
...used to defend the new partial-birth abortion law from a suit filed by a group of doctors. Still, for pro-choice groups, the logical next step is a big one: to mobilize their members behind John Kerry, who, if elected, would appoint Supreme Court Justices committed to upholding Roe v. Wade...
During his 24 years on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Harry A. Blackmun presided over thousands of cases, including Roe v. Wade, for which he wrote the majority opinion. The famously liberal judge also assembled a vast dossier of private papers--more than 530,000 letters and diaries--which, upon his retirement in 1994, he donated to the Library of Congress. Last week 1,585 boxes of his papers were unsealed...