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...speech, entitled “The Federal Abortion Ban: What Will It Do to Roe?”, Smith detailed numerous court cases that addressed abortion rights. Smith said the last opportunity to overturn Roe was 15 years ago in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision weakened the standard of right-to-choose, but reaffirmed many of the findings in Roe. The early 1990s saw two significant changes in the pro-life campaigns, according to Smith. First, Smith said, members of those opposed to a right to abortion began to obstruct access to abortion clinics and killed a number...
...Sappho (an American cocker spaniel), Reveur (a Lab) and Zorba (beagle) necked a good bottle-and-a-half each and refused to give up their spots at the front of the bar. Averti, however, was clearly unimpressed with the standard of beverage on offer. The white terrier took a moment to preen her coat as the rest of the pack jostled for position...
Here's how. To make health care more affordable, Bush wants to create a standard deduction for health insurance like the one offered for dependents. Families with private health plans would have their first $15,000 in earnings exempt from taxes (for individuals, it's $7,500). The idea, Bush argued sensibly Wednesday night, is to "level the playing field" between today's tax-advantaged employer-provided benefits and those purchased outside the workplace, where growing numbers of Americans seek coverage. But Bush would offset these new deductions by taxing employer-provided benefits above that...
...might never leave if Otsuka hadn't put an 80-minute limit on reservations. The restaurant's success has spawned a wave of similar butler cafs elsewhere in Tokyo, including some that offer gaijin (foreign) butlers who help female patrons practice their English, but Swallowtail remains the gold standard...
...finally indicting (at least on immigration charges) Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-Castro Cuban exile accused by Cuba and Venezuela in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner as it left Venezuela. Chavez has pointed to the U.S.'s failure to prosecute Posada as evidence of Washington's double standard on terrorism. That charge could ebb if Bush puts Posada away - just as Chavez's anti-U.S. harangues have slowed ("Go to hell, gringos!" is actually subdued for Hugo) since the State Department said last month it was seeking "a positive, constructive relationship" in Chavez's new term...