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Also, they've been telling me, the euro would be unified only on paper. Spoken out loud, the euro is as many currencies as there are languages. The Spanish would presumably call it an ay-oo-roe. The French pronunciation is so odd that an English doctor I spoke to advised against attempting it on an empty stomach...
Whenever these grisly abandonments occur, right-to-life proponents argue that we've arrived at the bottom of the slippery slope they've been warning us about since Roe v. Wade in 1973. As usual, Newt Gingrich goes too far when he talks about a culture of Dumpster babies, but why couldn't Melissa have wrapped the baby in a cloth and left him, as panicked girls used to do, someplace safe like the church steps, or turn to the Yellow Pages, filled with "pregnancy counseling" and "abortion alternatives...
Since her years in college, Strossen says, the ACLU has made significant progress on several major civil-liberties issues, including the right to abortion--established in Roe v. Wade in 1973--and recognition of gender discrimination...
...when the character Maude made the decision to have an abortion, I might have been convinced--had I been alive--that it was an important cultural moment. In the context of a nation torn by Roe v. Wade, a case could be made that television was tackling something truly controversial. In 1997, the outing of Ellen has no larger meaning...
...also cited what she called a "direct frontal attack" on Roe v. Wade in Congress--a proposed ban on partial-birth abortions--as evidence that the government is making a "real effort to roll back our rights...