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...only last July that pro-life forces were cheering themselves hoarse? After years of battling in the streets, the legislatures and the courts, they had won their greatest victory: a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Inc. that gives states enhanced power to restrict abortions. It was only a matter of time, pro-lifers predicted, before abortions were severely restricted, if not banned...
Three months later, pro-lifers must be wondering what hit them. Abortion- rights groups, perhaps with their fingers crossed, had promised that the Webster decision would galvanize a silent pro-choice majority. Last week, as pro-choice activists won stunning victories in Florida's legislature and the U.S. Congress, that promise began to be fulfilled. With the political landscape seeming to undergo a seismic shift, many antiabortion politicians have concluded that the only way to maintain their footing is to tiptoe away from their former positions...
Nothing better illustrated the growing fear of a pro-choice voter backlash than the special session of the Florida legislature. Just days after the Supreme Court's Webster ruling, first-term Republican Governor Bob Martinez, a staunch pro-lifer, called the session to consider new antiabortion laws. In a state with a fast-growing G.O.P., it appeared to be a politically astute move...
...Danielle Durak (W&M); 2. Jane Wood (W&M) 6-2, 7-5 Jennifer Minkus (H); 3. Kirsten Caister (W&M) 6-2, 6-1 Kim Cooper (H); 4. Cynthia Mitchell (W&M) 6-2, 6-7, 7-5 Erika Elmuts (H); 5. Danielle Webster (W&M) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 Rachel Pollack (H); Deb Herring (W&M) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 Melinda Wang...
...Durack-Caister (W&M) 6-2, 7-5 deLone-Cooper (H); 2. Webster-Wood (W&M) 6-3, 6-1 Elmuts-Wang (H); 3. Mitchell-Bonhoff (W&M) 6-4, 6-4 Pollack-Rival...