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...hundreds of Harvard students prepare for Sunday's march on Washington to rally for women's legal right to abortion, law professors and historians around the country are supporting briefs attempting asking the Supreme Court not to repeal Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion...
Later this month, the Court will hear Webster v. Reproductive Health Services--the first case threatening Roe since the appointments of Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy tipped the Court's ideological balance to the right...
...special American Psychological Association panel on abortion, told legislators that after a review of the same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
Last week's hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion is a safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion...
Overturning Roe would change all that. Up until now, the fundamentalist Right has resembled Oscar Wilde's description of George Bernard Shaw: they have no enemies in the Republican party, but they're disliked intensely by all of their friends. If MBA Republicans see that the party is actually carrying out the Right's social agenda, they will defect en masse...