Word: vetoes
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Thus Governor Buddy Roemer inherited some worthy opportunities for the veto. He used it on the abortion ban last week only days after thumbing down the lewd-lyrics law on the ground that it violated free-speech protections. The legislators may return to the capital Aug. 18 to consider whether to override the vetoes...
Dukakis' decision comes in the wake of recent threats by several groups to file lawsuits challenging the service tax. The governor has until July 18 to sign or veto the bill...
...absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions for rape and incest...
...Idaho veto and the pending one in Louisiana have not caused pro-lifers to retreat from their position on rape and incest. National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman Smith cites Pennsylvania's experience to show that women lie about rape. When the state did not require that rape or incest be reported to appropriate authorities, an average of 36 rape-related abortions a month were paid for by the state. When reporting requirements took effect in 1988, that number went down to about three a month...
...obviously, the President does not believe this issue is as important as Congress and a majority of Americans do. And what seems even more surprising is that this veto came from a President whose wife just recently made a highly publicized--and controversial--speech at the Wellesley College commencement, where she told the young women in the graduating class that their families and loved ones should and would come first in their lives...