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Wolf, who is currently serving her third term on the council, says that she presented the order as a means of counteracting the effects of the Webster decision...
With the Supreme Court's July decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services still fresh in in the minds of pro-choice and anti-abortion activists, the question of abortion rights looms large for many of today's 28 candidates for the Cambridge City Council...
...think it's been a real important issue," Hanig says. "A lot of people have asked me whether I was prochoice before they would even take my literature, and clearly that happened right after the Webster case...
Other candidates says they see the Webster decision as a signal that the fight for reproductive rights would be thrown back to the states. These candidates say that this means all elected officials in all areas of government should take a stand on the abortion issue...
Robert Heroux, who is running on the Small Property Owners Association and Citizens for Proposition 1-2-3 slates, says "[The Webster decision] really muddled things by throwing the battle to the state level. [Abortion] is such a basic societal right, it's unfortunate...