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Thus Governor Buddy Roemer inherited some worthy opportunities for the veto. He used it on the abortion ban last week only days after thumbing down the lewd-lyrics law on the ground that it violated free-speech protections. The legislators may return to the capital Aug. 18 to consider whether to override the vetoes...
...BUDDY ROEMER...
...rape or incest. The pro-life movement brooks no exception to the absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions for rape and incest...
That afternoon Roemer had read aloud a favorite passage from novelist John Fowles' book The Aristos: "In the whole, nothing is unjust. It may, to this or that individual, be unfortunate." So, in a sense, is capital punishment for both the condemned man and the Governor, who waited for word from Angola Prison that Dalton Prejean had died...
Five months into his first term, the city's first black mayor confronts an epidemic of bigotry and violence. -- The toughest choice a Governor can make is whether to execute a prisoner. Louisiana's Buddy Roemer decided last week that Dalton Prejean should...