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...recent attack on abortion has taken a variety of forms, all of which jeopardize women's Constitutional rights. On Sept. 19, the House of Representatives voted to override President Clinton's veto of the bill banning a late-term abortion procedure commonly known as "partial-birth" abortions. While the Senate couldn't muster the required two-thirds majority to override the veto last week, the debate has brought the issue of abortion to the center of the political arena...
Over 30 states have passed some sort of ban on partial-birth abortions, but 20 of them have been blocked or restricted in enforcing the ban by the courts. Just a day after the Senate failed to override the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion bill, a federal appeals court upheld Illinois and Wisconsin bans of the procedure, virtually ensuring that the issue will go to the Supreme Court...
...investigation, which, the bill's opponents fear, could lead the Drug Enforcement Agency right into patients' hospital rooms, and send scores of doctors into protracted legal proceedings. This could be a lenghty battle: President Clinton has voiced his disappointment over the House vote, indicating his readiness to sign a veto, and at this point each side of the debate claims to have the votes to render the other side moot. Across the country in Oregon, battle lines are already drawn; state legislators are threatening to challenge the constitutionality of any federal law overturning the state's assisted suicide provision, citing...
...status abroad, the bitter collision over the test ban is a bad omen for the future of peaceful co-existence between the President and Congress. Next up is the contest over the budget. Though Congress may finish all 13 appropriations bills by the end of this week, Clinton could veto as many as five of them, beginning a pitched fight that may decide the 2000 election. And don't expect him to position himself as a centrist, the role he played in the balanced-budget agreement two years ago and on welfare reform...
...dust was still settling after a day of emotional arguments, senators approved Rick Santorum's (R-Pa.) measure calling for a ban on certain kinds of late-term abortions. The 63-34 margin was only four votes short of the majority needed to override Clinton's promised veto. Before abortion-rights proponents had a chance to process that close call, the Senate raised the stakes with another, purely symbolic vote. By a startling 51-47 margin, the Senate went on the record in support of Roe v. Wade; the slim majority gave champions of the 1973 law a sobering glance...