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Abortion. No Supreme Court decision galls the New Right more than Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that gave women a constitutional right to abortion through the first two trimesters of pregnancy. It is one of the precedents most in jeopardy of reversal if Reagan appoints conservatives to the court. Says Constitutional Lawyer Abrams: "The Justices struggled terribly over Roe vs Wade, as they ought to have. I fear a Reagan Court would not struggle at all. They might simply reverse...
...Justices now on the court, White and Rehnquist, dissented in Roe Burger voted with the majority, but is now said to be uncomfortable with the court's decision and would like to find some way at least to water down its sweeping impact
...guilt and resentment she must force upon Gaston. Jennifer Burton, who portrays Gaston's sister-in-law lover is almost sinister, taunting her brother in-law, forcing him to face her, refusing rejection. The malice with which she plays the woman-scorned makes one genuinely pity Gaston Alexander Roe, Gaston's brothers, appropriately distances himself from angry resentment of the rest of the family, confronting Gaston with an honesty and restrained tenderness which is almost perfectly suited for his character...
...Harvard Center for Law and Education, was a frequent guest, as was Archibald Cox, who had field an amicus curie brief in DeFunis v. Odegard, involving the question of whether a law school may constitutionally give preference to members of racial minorities. When the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wode, the celebrated abortion case, was handed down, our guests included a professor with an appointment at both the Divinity School and School of Public Health, a Roman Catholic nun, a pregnancy counselor at the Harvard University Health Services and a physician from the Massachuseets General Hospital. The purpose...
...Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love, the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore...