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...think I've upheld the honor of this office. We've had a good, clean Administration. Our ethical standards are high. Also, I've learned I can take the heat. It goes back to what your mother taught you: Do your best, try your hardest...
...trying to pass the Freedom of Choice Act for at least the rest of the year. They were motivated by the realization that the law, which would guarantee abortion rights nationwide, would probably not be passed unless it included provisions allowing state governments to impose restrictions like those recently upheld by the Supreme Court. For these abortion advocates, half a loaf is worse than none...
...Massachusetts Court of Appeals this month upheld the conviction of a former Harvard Law School Student found guilty of raping a Harvard undergraduate...
...Supreme Court may have sustained American women's right to choose abortion, but it still seems willing to limit the ways to have one. In a test case involving the French abortion pill RU-486, the Justices by a 7-to-2 vote upheld an appellate-court ruling that bars return of the drug to a pregnant woman. U.S. customs agents had seized the pills from Leona Benten, 29, who had legally acquired them abroad. The court left open the question of the constitutionality of the U.S. ban on RU-486. Benten now plans to have a surgical abortion...
...same day that Warmus learned her fate, an appellate court in Wisconsin upheld the murder conviction of a former beauty queen who is already serving a life sentence for killing her ex-boyfriend's fiance. Lori Esker, erstwhile Marathon County Dairy Princess, became wildly jealous when she discovered that her prince, a local farmer, had decided to take up permanent residence with on-again, off-again girlfriend Lisa Cihaski. Esker strangled Cihaski in September 1989, leaving her body to be found in a parked...