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...wake of the salacious presidential scandal, an important anniversary was nearly forgotten by much of the press last week: the 25th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States. Although abortion should not be the only issue a citizen considers in the voting booth, it certainly must be considered an important one. The legalization of abortion was a watershed for the validity of individual rights, but a tragic miscalculation of who can enjoy those rights...
...genetic reality that exists fully at that same moment of conception. Painted to complex perfection on its landscape of DNA are the characteristics and flaws, talents and proclivities of an individual. These are facts that science has given us. This is a truth that the arbitrary nature of the Roe V. Wadetrimester system did not-expect...
Even to the most ardent pro-lifers, it is apparent that Roe v. Wade will not be over-turned any time soon, if ever, and that abortion will most likely always remain legal in this country. However, this does not mean a defeat for one side of the issue, but an opportunity to re-address the unfortunate reality that still exists: the callous disposal of human life and the lessening of its importance to society as a whole...
...have outlawed a rarely used procedure known politically as partial-birth abortion and described medically as "intact dilation and extraction." To pro-choice groups, the new laws in states from Rhode Island to Montana represent an alarming challenge to the fundamental principles set down by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. "The antiabortion movement has in one sense already won," says Janet Benshoof, president of the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, which is challenging nine of the new laws in court...
...nationwide. At the grass-roots level, activists organized prayer vigils and phone banks to persuade state legislators. The strategy has worked. Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the NRLC, believes the push has changed the nature of the abortion debate. "The question is now determining what are the parameters of Roe...