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...Princeton University, which sent 120 students to the demonstration, there has been a significant increase in political activity since the July 3 decision, according to student activist Jennifer Weiner. "I agree with people who say Webster was the best thing that happened to the pro-choice movement," she says...
...homophobia is. Webster's 1980 "newly revised" dictionary does not have an entry for the word, so we point to Audre Lourde's definition: "A terror surrounding feelings of love for members of the same sex and thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets...
...fact, as the "decade of apathy" draws to a close, many say the U.S Supreme Court's recent Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ruling, which upheld Missouri laws restricting abortion, has reawakened political activism on college campuses...
...Supreme Court's ruling this summer in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and several decisions pending this fall are expected to give the states more power to limit abortions...
...kind March on Washington to defend a woman's right to choose an abortion. The national situation has since become more grave for defenders of this right, with an increasingly antagonistic Republican administration in office and a Supreme Court handing down decisions like this past July's answer in Webster v. Reproductive Services, which made it legal for a state to restrict a woman's access to abortion...