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...earlier case, argued in 1972 when Souter was the state's deputy attorney general, New Hampshire defended its strict anti-abortion law against a constitutional challenge by arguing: "The maintenance of an unborn child's right to birth is a compelling interest which outweighs any rights of a mother to an abortion except when necessary to preserve her life...
...Clearly the Senate should ask Judge Souter to address himself to this document at his confirmation hearings," said Arthur J. Kropp, president of the liberal group People for the American Way. Kropp, whose organization on Monday released copies of New Hampshire's fillings in the 1976 case, said the language in them "suggests a clear sympathy for an anti-abortion viewpoint...
...case, several pregnant women receiving Medicaid help challenged a new state regulation in which the state said it would not pay for abortions unless a woman's life was at risk. The case was first filed in 1975, when Souter was top deputy to Warren Rudman. Souter became attorney general in 1976 when Rudman went into private practice. Rudman, a Republican, was elected to the Senate...
...federal district court had ordered New Hampshire to pay for Medicaid abortions pending the outcome of the case, but the state appealed that injunction to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, the court on which Souter now sits...
...problem grew last week as Native leaders across Canada declared their solidarity with the Mohawks. The chiefs said they would take their case to the U.N. and called on the world to impose economic sanctions against Canada to protest its treatment of Native peoples. The government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney balked at negotiating under pressure, but said it would try to buy the land to transfer to the Natives -- once the barricades came down...