Word: connor
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...morality and privacy, the right to life and the right to choose. Attached to those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize abortion, the nation is on a political collision course...
That leaves Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the court, at the pivotal point of a 4-to-4 standoff. Though also a Reagan appointee, O'Connor has indicated that she would not reverse Roe entirely. But she has been strongly willing in the past to give states greater latitude to limit the availability of abortion, and limits are something that pro-choice forces fear almost as much as a reversal. Axing Roe would instantly bring home to millions of American women what they had lost. Whittling it away step by step, case by case could...
...Connor, once active in the Arizona G.O.P., wrote the letter last year to Apache Junction Republican Annetta Conant. At Conant's request, the Justice cited three court opinions that, according to O'Connor, were "to the effect that this is a Christian nation...
After adoption of the resolution at the annual state party convention, along - with measures opposing water fluoridation and the grand-jury system, Conant revealed O'Connor's correspondence. Conservative Barry Goldwater criticized the resolutions, declaring that he was "upset and disgusted" to realize that the state G.O.P. had been taken over by a "bunch of kooks...
Legal scholars pointed out that two of the opinions O'Connor cited actually do not promote the concept of a Christian nation. The embarrassed Justice said she regretted that her letter had been "used in a political debate." It was a weak excuse. Conant had stated that a letter from O'Connor would be "beneficial" since "Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic area...