Word: pro
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...would postpone the execution of pregnant death row inmates until after they had given birth, and Gore, after some hemming and hawing, finally came up with an answer: "The principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case." Gore didn't want to alienate his pro-choice constituency, so he just went on autopilot...
...Gore's response suggests that the woman's right to choose is global: She can elect to save her unborn child, or she can decide , in effect, to abort it by being executed herself. It's a grisly choice. Unfortunately for Gore (not to mention the pro-choice movement in general), his response set legislative wheels in motion. The tie-in was obvious: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who sponsored a bill banning the execution of pregnant inmates, took to the House floor to lobby for her position, informing colleagues that unborn children had committed no crime...
...brainer (not to mention a slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...geopolitical present tense (or tense present), and the Holy City appeared to be all that stood between the secular, terrestrial powers represented by Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and an agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed...
Well-known as a calm and thoughtful presence, Cheney is also widely respected among the Republican faithful for his consistently conservative views on issues ranging from abortion (he's pro-life) to taxes...