Word: wade
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...Wade. Sometimes those seem like the most contentious words in American law. Short and unassuming though they are, they connote other, more explosive terms: abortion and murder, morality and privacy, the right to life and the right to choose. Attached to those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize...
...what about the rights of law-abiding family members whose relatives are accused of a drug offense? Should they be held culpable for the crime? "We're concerned about those who might be innocent and evicted," says Wade Henderson of the A.C.L.U. "The next step from public housing for many people is homelessness." Kemp's desire to rid the projects of drug dealers and encourage parental vigilance is commendable. But the strategy he unveiled last week seems likely to provoke legal challenges that could hamper its implementation -- and throw some innocent tenants out on the street...
...Supreme Court this week hears a case that could weaken or reverse its controversial Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. That prospect has jolted pro-choice forces into action. Meanwhile, Operation Rescue has become the spearhead of the militant pro-life movement. Garry Wills describes the new antiabortion shock troops and their leader, Randall Terry...
...hear more from us about who the opposition is," Ireland vowed. "We're going to name names,...then let the majority of people in this country who stand behind Roe v. Wade make their own decision about who to vote for and where to spend their money...
ROTC is a philosophical and moral morass that we need not mire ourselves in. Let those who benefit from its discrimination take the bus. Wade Lagrone UC Representative Dunster House