Word: overturning
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...sympathize with the author's practical concerns about women who would seek illegal abortions and thus put their health at risk if the Supreme Court ever overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. (Attorney General Richard Thornburgh recently predicted that the Court would overturn Roe and let states enact their own abortion laws.) The government must address this problem and the problem of punishments for violators before it can ever safely and successfully illegalize abortion...
...nine Justices take up a case that could lead them to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, pro- choice forces are mobilizing their troops...
...year after a case in which a cadet, who was applying for a Rhodes Scholarship, was accused of lying to two instructors. The student, Anthony S. Ketron, was expelled by the full honor board and then was reinstated shortly before graduation when two U.S. Representatives asked the Pentagon to overturn the expulsion...
Even if the present court is not willing to overturn Roe, time may be on the side of the pro-lifers. Three of the Justices who voted with the proabortion majority in Roe are now in their 80s. Antiabortion forces are betting that George Bush will continue Ronald Reagan's policy of appointing Justices who are sympathetic to conservative causes...
After HUCTW narrowly won a vote to unionize the University's 3400 support staff, Harvard charged the union with unfair labor practices and asked the NLRB to overturn the vote...