Word: wading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, fundamentalism can't be quelled in one powerful stroke. Fundamentalism had been simmering along the Bible belt for years; it slowly came into vogue all over the nation after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision...
...time has come to hold the anti-choice movement's feet to the fire. Violence has become part of their nationwide strategy. They are frustrated that Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land after 22 years. The anti-choice movements has shifted gears; instead of trying to make abortion legal, they now are trying to make it inaccessible. As Operation Rescue's Randall Terry himself admits, "We've found the weak link is the doctor. We're going to expose them. We're going to humiliate them." Terry is the one who distributed old-style "Wanted" posters...
...help women carry difficult pregnancies to full term. The Food and Drug Administration refuses them permission to test it, so they steal an embryo, fertilize it and implant it in Alex's abdomen. After which nature -- if that's the word we want -- takes its course. The Kevin Wade-Chris Conrad screenplay takes some humorless pains to make this science fiction plausible, and it's smart of director Ivan Reitman to be patient with all that. The more that Schwarzenegger's predicament seems real, the funnier...
...Congress, that potentially means, if not directly attempting to topple the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roc v. Wade, nonetheless limiting a woman's right to abortion. Entirely dismantling former President Johnson's Great Society social programs. And returning to the failed Reaganomics...
...social issues, Weld has strayed from the Republican party in favor of tolerance. He is firmly pro-choice and favors legislation to codify Roe v. Wade. In 1992, he became the first Republican governor to with the National Women's Political Caucus award for having the highest percentage of females in his cabinet (nearly 64 percent). And he even signed into law Roosevelt's bill which mandated the protection of gays and lesbians against discrimination...