Word: rusts
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...rulings of the Rehnquist court have sent liberal activists scrambling to Congress and the states to defend rights that are increasingly under attack. In May, in Rust v. Sullivan, the court ruled that the government could cut off federal funds from health clinics that provided abortion counseling; last week Congress struck back with a bill to restore the funding. The civil rights bill is Congress's response to last year's court rulings that made it harder for employees to prove that they had suffered discrimination on the job. "We are no longer seeking out the Supreme Court to review...
...those laws could provide the court with an opportunity to overturn Roe -- a prospect that seemed nearer than ever after last month's decision in Rust v. Sullivan. In that case, by a 5-to-4 vote in which Souter sided with the conservatives, the court ruled that doctors, nurses and other care providers at clinics that accept federal funds cannot even mention abortion to their patients. "I've never had much hope for this court," says Colleen O'Connor, public-education director for the A.C.L.U. "But I was never as dispirited as when it came down with the Rust...
...many states willing to wager on something as chancy as novelty gambling? In a word: desperation. Towns on the northern reaches of the Mississippi were battered hard in the Rust Belt shake-out of the early '80s, and the oil bust has left Louisiana's coffers depleted. Hit again by the current recession, local governments are eager for any kind of development that will attract tourists and restore sagging tax rolls. Legislators are keenly aware that gambling is among the country's fastest-growing industries -- expected to be worth $278 billion this year alone -- and they want a piece...
Moreover, poorer women are more likely to have health problems that can result in a complicated birth. Although Rust provides for abortion counseling under extreme health conditions, the American Medical Association recently argued that the list is far too restrictive. Heart disease, diabetes and conditions of the nervous system, for example, all have been proven to complicate pregnancies but are not cause for abortion counseling under Rust...
Because of Rust, more unmarried, young and sick women will give birth, and, predictably, more babies will die. A review of the most respected medical literature by Barbara Starfield concluded that reduced access to family planning is the second most important contributor to infant death in the first month. (Before Roe v. Wade, it was the first...