Word: supportive
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...focus of this campaign. He has explicitly contradicted the idea that he would only appoint justices who are pro-life. He has promised that he will not use the abortion stance as a litmus test in appointing justices, while Gore has said that he will only appoint justices who support abortion. Gore voted pro-life through the 1980s, but since his vice presidential candidacy, he has refused the possibility of appointing a justice who maintains any beliefs but the most liberal. Bush has maintained that he will look for good justices who will interpret the Constitution as it was intended...
...Globe's sources also support the idea that Canellos meant for the suggestion to be taken seriously...
...number of caustic chemicals. "I thought about the chemicals I had been exposed to and I thought about our very busy lives," Amy says. "I know what I can handle, and our lives were not settled enough or prepared enough for another child." She decided, with her husband's support, to have an abortion...
...BABIES An infant's birth weight may be a function of how much social support the expectant mother receives during pregnancy. Researchers at UCLA and the University of California at Irvine interviewed nearly 250 pregnant women, gathering data about the baby's father, the baby's grandparents and the mother's close friendships. They found that women who received support from multiple sources tended to have bigger babies, perhaps because they were encouraged to stop smoking and start eating better...
...greatest weakness of current efforts to put the peace process back together is that they depend on both Arafat and Barak being able to muster the political support necessary to turn the political tide on both sides of the divide. And in both cases, that may be a tall order. Barak's domestic political weakness is forcing Barak to act tough, and he's now considering a unity government with the Likud party who've opposed the peace process all the way. And the mounting violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is a frightening portent of the drift...