Alarmed that Ralph Nader could hand the Presidential election to George W. Bush, women’s advocates are saying that Nader is not really progressive, does not champion women’s rights and does not understand the critical importance of Roe v. Wade.
The Food and Drug Administration will decide after four years of consideration whether to approve the abortion pill RU-486, a drug that would bring privacy to many intimate decisions and perhaps cool the abortion wars.
States can improve women’s health by ensuring access to abortion services, but most states, and the nation as a whole, have failed to do so, according to a comprehensive state-by-state study. It grades 48 states “F.”
Texas Gov. George W. Bush is slipping in the polls; pundits cite his recent blunders but ignore his inflexible stand against abortion rights. But experts on the women’s vote say both Democrats and Republicans are strongly influenced by “choice.”
The abortion debate in Australia hasn’t reached the fevered pitch of the controversy in the U.S., but the recent highly publicized abortion in Melbourne of a 32-week-old fetus diagnosed with dwarfism illuminates the troubling issue of choice.
The Supreme Court 5-4 decision rejecting laws purporting to ban late-term abortions might well have set the stage for a new round of restrictive state laws with an eye to pick up that one crucial vote on the High Court.
The only surprise at the Republican National Convention may be the determination of the pro-choice Republicans not to give up. They are pressing on, offering delegates pizza, polls, pamphlets and pieces of their minds.
An Oklahoma Congressman’s amendment, designed to discourage non-monogamous sex, has passed the House. It requires warnings about a usually harmless virus to be placed on condom packages and could require physicians to report infection in women.
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