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...past week several national figures have drawn an analogy between the Supreme Court's ruling in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and the Vietnam...
...theWebster decision will go down in history as a marker of our times. The Court's decisions subtly chipped away at many of the gains made in the civil rights era--most obviously in its decisions to narrow the interpretation of affirmative action and, with its ruling in Webster, pave the way for state regulation of reproduction...
Court officials refused all comment on the prospect of a Monday decision in the Missouri case, which is called Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services. And in the absence of any hard facts, rumors abounded...
Noting that the vote came while the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to abortion rights posed by the Webster case, officials at MassChoice--the statewide abortion rights group--said they were pleased...
Missouri Attorney General William Webster, the first to speak, attempted to minimize the impact of his state's antiabortion law, which declares that life begins at conception and bars the use of public funds and public facilities such as hospitals to perform or assist in an abortion. The statute, which has never gone into effect, would also forbid doctors in publicly funded hospitals to "encourage or counsel" a woman to obtain an abortion. Webster argued that several of the law's provisions would have little impact, implying that the court could uphold them without jeopardizing...