Word: waded
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Almost simultaneously in Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling legalizing abortions nationwide. Meese has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision that gave women the Constitutional right to end their own pregnancies...
...Justice Department argues that Roe v. Wade has proved "inherently unworkable" and wrongly infringes on states' rights to limit abortions. If Roe v. Wade is slashed from the law books, anti-abortion factions now gaining power in states across the nation will have nothing to prevent them from pushing legislation to illegal abortion on the state level...
...Wade is repealed, there is a real possibility that anti-abortion legislation will make it through the statehouses, particularly in more traditionally conservative regions. The Boston National Organization for Women reports that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, Massachusetts anti-abortion activists are gaining support for a bill that would virtually outlaw abortion in the state. The piece of legislation would call for an end to all "public" and "private" funding for abortion, leaving women without access to state funds, and unable to use their own funds for abortions...
COMPOUNDING THE class-based injustice of the Administration's proposal, the move to reverse Roe v. Wade is grounded in manipulation of information. The court did not, as Meese has charged, give women the "unfettered right" to "abortion on demand." Roe v. Wade holds that women may not be constrained from choosing abortions in the first trimester but gives states some rights to prohibit abortions in the second trimester and the right to prohibit all but lifesaving abortions in the third trimester. Roe v. Wade found that a woman's right to make reproductive decisions is part of a "right...
...Silent No More crusade is coming on the heels of a well-publicized pro- life campaign last winter. In January, 70,000 antiabortion demonstrators took part in a March for Life in Washington, as they have done on each anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, and were addressed by Reagan. His message: "These days, as never before, the momentum is with us." A graphic film that shows ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding...