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...patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade...
...high time that the Supreme Court steps in to clarify and protect the right which it affirmed for women under Roe v. Wade and which has been slowly undermined ever since. States have severely limited a woman's access to abortion through waiting periods and parental consent laws, while the federal government has denied access to abortions to poor women through the Hyde Amendment which mandates that no federal funds can be used to pay for an abortion...
...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 at challenges ahead. "This is going to be an absolutely huge issue in the elections," Barbara Boxer told the Associated Press...
...course, abortion is already a huge issue for most of the candidates, and this week's Senate debate crystallizes existing, often unheralded, positions. Both Gore and Bradley recently issued statements emphasizing their commitment to the pro-choice cause; Gore referred directly to the Senate's Roe v. Wade vote, noting America is "perilously close" to having an anti-abortion majority in the Senate. Yesterday's vote also provoked an uncharacteristically blunt comment from George W. Bush, who called late-term abortion "inhumane," and urged President Clinton to sign the bill. This is a new tack for Bush...
...despite the less than ideal playing conditions, Harvard was able to wade through the mud and come through with its biggest win of the year...