Word: term
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...Question 1 note that the proposal would not allow the legislature to prohibit abortion in cases in which the woman's life is in danger. That is the most narrow exemption one could conceive. Meanwhile, victims of rape and incest would be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Question 1 is not a limited measure; it is a potentially sweeping assault on abortion rights in Massachusetts...
...exemplary program, the Archdiocese of Boston's Project Rachel, offers to pay all the pre-natal and post-natal costs of any woman who chooses to bring her child to term...
...fall of '71, Saundra Graham won her first term on the Cambridge City Council. In 1976 she became a state representative from Cambridgeport, and is running unopposed for reelection to that seat. One member of the unruly class she addressed--State Sen. Michael LoPresti, 71 Jr. of Cambridge--represents an area including Harvard Yard as her colleague in the legislature. He is also unopposed for reelection this year...
...South Dakota the race could be called the Jane Fonda election. When first- term Republican Senator James Abdnor found himself trailing telegenic Democrat Tom Daschle by nine points, he unleashed a barrage of TV spots charging that his rival had consorted at a congressional hearing with Fonda, conservative America's most reviled radical. Fonda, Abdnor pointed out, had urged people not to eat red meat; beef and pork are among South Dakota's biggest farm products. The upshot: Abdnor has now pulled slightly ahead...
...most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends of the moment...