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...Wright, the outcome was predictable, but the collapse of yet another Democratic leader was sudden and unexpected. Barely had Wright's lawyer, Stephen Susman, begun his opening statement to the House ethics committee last week, pleading that even a dead man deserves due process, when all parties seemed to be looking for a way out of the spectacle of a Speaker of the House of Representatives going on trial...
That line provoked the sharpest rejoinder of the day, from attorney Frank Susman, who argued on behalf of the Missouri abortion clinic that is challenging the antiabortion law: "It has always been my personal experience that when I pull a thread, my sleeve falls off . . . It is not a thread he is after. It is the full range of procreational rights and choices...
...Susman put to his own purposes a tactic of the antiabortion forces, who argue that scientific advances will invalidate Roe by making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
...when Susman argued that there is a fundamental right to abortion, Scalia appeared to see the border of one right impinging upon another. "It is very hard to say . . . that it must be a fundamental right," he replied, "unless you make the determination that the organism that is destroyed is not a human life...
...Issue: Julie L. Belcove '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Susan B. Glasser '90 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Features Editors: Noam S. Cohen '89 Brooke A. Masters '89 Editorial Editors: Laurie M. Grossman '89 John J. Murphy '89 Gary L. Susman '89 Photography Editors: David K. Eldan '89 Hector I. Osorio '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Jennifer M. Frey '90 Casey J. Lartigue Jr. '89 Michael J. Lartigue '89 Copy Editor: Michael R. Grunwald...