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These developments could change the nature of abortion and even of birth control by eventually permitting the widespread distribution of pills. Though the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 made abortion legal in the U.S., the ruling was rendered moot in some places by the dearth of doctors willing to perform the procedure and by the fervor of demonstrators who frightened women away from clinics. Now the battleground may shift to the FDA, drug manufacturers and state legislatures...
Other recognitions afforded to Edelman range from the Anne Roe Award from Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 1984 to the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize from Johns Hopkins University...
...straight face that he has no personal feeling on abortion. Here was a man so frightened by the poisonous atmosphere created by extremists on both sides of the abortion issue that he looked at 15 senators and hundreds of cameras and said that he did not privately discuss Roe v. Wade even though it was handed down while he was in law school...
...departure will have a major impact. For the first time in a quarter- century, Democrats will have a chance to put their man or woman on the court and brake the bench's conservative drift. White, 75, one of the original two dissenters in Roe v. Wade and a consistent foe of the constitutional right to abortion, opposed broad use of affirmative action, favored greater accommodation between church and state and regularly sided with police on law- and-order issues. President Clinton promptly promised to find a top notch replacement with "good judgment" and "a big heart...
...rising violence may reflect in part the sense of stalemate among antiabortion groups. Now that the Supreme Court has stopped short of overturning Roe v. Wade and a pro-choice Administration rules Washington, clinic operators fear that frustrated pro-life militants will become even more aggressive and threatening. According to the National Abortion Federation, a Washington-based advocacy group, in 1992 alone there were 116 cases of clinic vandalism, 12 reported incidents of arson, 9 cases of attempted arson, 5 burglaries and a bombing...