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...group probably will not participate in theJanuary 23 annual march on Washington protestingthe 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Courtdecision, Taylor said. "It's right in the middleof exams...
...organized by NOW is expected to be the largest women's rights demonstration ever in the United States. It comes in the wake of last July's landmark Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which weakened the federal protection of abortion set forth in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision...
Clifford said the ruling could conflict with the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision allowing women to have abortions. Janet Mayfield, the attorney who will handle Mr. Davis' appeal, said the decision might also conflict with state laws on property interests and anatomical gifts...
Advocates think the lessons will keep women from seeking back-alley butchers or resorting to the horrifying home measures, such as inserting coat hangers and douching with Lysol or Coca-Cola, that were common before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide in 1973. NOW's national headquarters in Washington takes no position on self-help abortions but has not discouraged its local affiliates...
...political compromise could deal with subsidiary issues, such as clinic standards and parental-notification requirements, on their own merits, whereas they have until now usually been cynical attempts to sneak around Roe's absolute constitutional ban. On the one side issue pro-choicers have generally lost -- government funding of abortions for poor women -- they might even find the opposition more accommodating once the general issue is open for debate and compromise. Right-to-life absolutists will find themselves isolated. Appeals to fairness, not to mention more cynical arguments regarding the cost to society of poor women having unwanted babies, will...