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...Austin, Texas, a recently elected legislator, and unaware of what was going on in Washington, even though I had filed and argued Roe v. Wade. Roe began in 1969 when a group of University of Texas graduate students asked whether they could be prosecuted as accomplices to abortion if they shared information about where to get illegal abortions or out-of-state legal ones. I was 24, a woman lawyer and willing to do the case for free. We found a 1965 Supreme Court case overturning a Connecticut law making it a crime to use birth control, as well...
...world was about to change for women that Monday morning, but only the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices and a few court personnel knew it. The second case on the docket that day was Roe v. Wade, which challenged the Texas laws making virtually all abortions illegal. Justice Harry Blackmun read the decision he had written declaring the laws unconstitutional, which had passed by a vote...
Here's where you could wade into murky legal waters. Keeping a copy for personal use is O.K.; distributing it requires the permission of every artist you have sampled. Don't hold your breath. It took mash-up duo 2ManyDJs a whole year to clear the rights for an album that took a week to make. Meanwhile, at least you'll have something better than American Idol to pass the time with...
...choice approach to abortion, however, does not preclude making essential distinctions between abortions at different stages of pregnancy. Indeed under the Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion in 1973, abortion becomes increasingly restricted as pregnancy progresses; late term abortions are legal only if the life of the mother is in danger. Over the course of the Natalie campaign, I have, frankly, only become more convinced that this distinction between stages of pregnancy is a real one and that, precisely for this reason, women for whom abortion is the right choice must have the support and resources to make this...
...Cable programming provides a form of information and entertainment that is presently not available to Harvard students. CNN provides national and international coverage for students who don’t want to listen to NPR or wade through websites for their news. Stations like the Discovery Channel and History Channel are educational in nature. And there are dozens of channels that provide entertaining programming that Harvard students consistently enjoy when they’re home on break...