Word: wade
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Sophomore Jeannette Vargas says that therestrictions are not quite enough. "I was walkingfrom the Yard to Eliot [last year], and I had topractically wade through beer cans," she says. "Ifthey're going to come, that's fine, but if they'regoing to destroy our campus, I'd rather they juststayed home...
...President faces a gender gap of unprecedented proportions (in most surveys, women favor Bill Clinton by almost 20 points), a black hole attributable almost entirely to Bush's implacable hostility to choice and the widespread perception that the Supreme Court is only one Justice away from overturning Roe v. Wade, which constitutionally protects a woman's right to abortion. Now, at the worst possible time, the President has again vetoed Congress's repeal of the regulation that prohibits abortion counseling at 4,000 federally funded family-planning clinics that serve the $ poor -- a ban the Administration says it will begin...
...Abortion. Bush regularly declares, "My position on abortion hasn't changed." Well, not recently, anyway. Bush backed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision when he ran for President in 1980, but moved to the right as Vice President under Reagan during the 1980s and, in order to curry favor with the G.O.P. conservatives, eventually came to oppose the landmark decision...
Elected first-year law students, who have not yet affiliated themselves with one of the factions, are John Bates, Robert James, Leslie Janzen, Bo Schweibert, Chantel Tomas, Jonathan Unger '92, Eugene Wade and Lisa White...
First promulgated by the Reagan administration in 1988, the gag rule was a not-so-disguised way for members of the religious right and other anti-abortion activists to inject their narrow views into government policies otherwise protected by Roe v. Wade. If family planning clinics can't even discuss abortion, gag rule proponents reason, fewer women will have abortions...