It’s LEGAL, BABY! THE DAILY BROWSE 5/29-30/99
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It’s LEGAL, BABY!
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THE WEEKENDER
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MAY 29-30, 1999
It's LEGAL, Baby! ‘Partial-Birth’ ban upheld... Judge
rules Wisconsin abortion law is constitutional
Law is not vague... does not place undue burden on
women... State has valid interest in banning
procedure... which is never medically necessary to
preserve health of the woman... does not place obstacle
in path of women...
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Judge Coar stays with the program: Tells Scheidler, No!
U.S. District Judge David Coar refused to let Joseph
Scheidler and two co-defendants start discovery
proceedings that might turn up fresh facts to help their
cause. Attorneys "fully expect it to be in the courts in
the year 2006."
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More pro-abort violence at Ft. Myers abortion clinic
Elderly pro-lifer attacked for second time in three
weeks. Struck by assailant's car, physically roughed up.
Another violent pro-abort busted.
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Panel members question doctor's opinion of time of baby's
death
"I'm having a hard time reconciling that this child was
dead," when he was still breathing and had a heartbeat,
Dr. Randi Leggett said. "I'm troubled by your
definition of death," added Dr. Gilbert Rodriguez.
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Group discouraging abortions will open pregnancy center in
Park City
A Salt Lake group opposed to abortion will open an
office in the Park City area with hopes of curbing the
highest per capita abortion rate in the state.
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Anti-China factions may unite
Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Chris Cox and Chris Smith
on the same podium? On the same side? The strange, new
coalition of pro-choice/pro-life/pro-human
rights/pro-national security forming around the China
issue.
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Abortion protester loses appeal
A woman ticketed for blocking traffic while she handed
out leaflets on abortion procedures has been convicted
of violating a city ordinance.
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Opposition to interstate abortion transport bill proves
self-serving
A woman who helped her grandson's girlfriend get an
abortion says a House panel should reject a proposal
that would make it harder for teens to get abortions
because women like herself could wind up in jail.
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South African Muslims split on poll boycott
Moderate South African Muslims have broken ranks with
their more radical counterparts, dismissing a call for a
boycott of next week's second democratic elections as
irresponsible. Abortion, gay rights and the death
penalty are the hot-button issue.
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Prayer and Punishment: Crowd Makes God Part of Graduation;
Teen Protester Is Shut Out of Festivities
It started with a loud, clear voice, a man's voice. And
it spread quickly through the hall, picking up the
tenors of teenage boys, whispers of young girls and
throaty voices of grandmothers. "Our Father, who art in
Heaven . . . "
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Spike Lee: I was only jivin'...
Spike Lee says he was joking when he said Charlton
Heston should be shot. The director told reporters at
the Cannes Film Festival that the National Rifle
Association should be disbanded and, of Heston, "Shoot
him with a .44 Bulldog."
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NARAL's Kate Michelman lashes out at Bush over parental
consent law
"Governor George W. Bush has signaled that anti-choice
forces -- a pivotal factor in GOP primaries -- need not
worry about the moderate talk on abortion he's dished
out to political reporters across the country."
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Battle of the Bands -- Round 3: RFL fires back
Rock For Life stands firmly by its previous statement
suggesting that Lilith Fair folks simply look to their
own Web site which explicitly states that Planned
Parenthood receives contributions from Lilith Fair.
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SPOOF: "I also did not have sexual relations with THAT
woman!"
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Panny Raid: A little blood-letting in the Virginia GOP
Is pro-abort Delegate Anne G. "Panny" Rhodes an
independent-minded Republican who votes her conscience,
or is she a disloyal legislator who has abandoned the
principles of the Republican Party?
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Losing the moral war
President Clinton should be ashamed of the attacks on
civilians
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The deadly semantics of NATO bombings
Isn't it time we stopped using the word 'accidental' to
describe the NATO bombing of Yugoslav hospitals,
residential neighborhoods, buses, trains, trucks, and
refugees on roads that has killed or maimed at least
1,000 civilians, including children?
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Army's top soldier calls for scaling back military
commitments
"There's got to be a sunset clause on open-ended Army
deployments to places like the Sinai and Haiti. I think
we ought to start with a clean sheet and look at all of
them and see how we can reduce or eliminate some of
them."
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Military Buys 9,000 Purple Hearts
Lee Graves this week got some good news for his
business, but not very good news for soldiers. "On
Wednesday, we got the official order to make 9,000
Purple Hearts," he told me from Tomball, Texas.
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Majority in Greece wants Clinton tried for war crimes
Poll showed 69.7% of Greeks want Mr Clinton tried and
35.2%t want the British Prime Minister, Mr Blair, also
charged over NATO's campaign of air strikes against
Yugoslavia. But only 14% believe Mr Milosevic should
face international sanctions.
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Group of Canadian Lawyers Files War Crime Charges against
NATO Leaders
ITEM 5: The group has charged Bill Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Javier Solana, Jamie Shea, Jean Chretien, Art
Eggleton, Lloyd Axworthy and 60 other heads of state and
government, foreign ministers, defense ministers with
war crimes.
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Of foxes and henhouses...
What do you have to do to commit serious treason in this
country? Offenses that would get you hanged in other
countries get spies probation in America.
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Gun love is a guy thing — just try to keep it from me.
"Are we curious about guns? Curiosity doesn't touch it —
we are enraptured. On the news, on TV — on a shelf in
the attic. In a movie, in a toy store — in the bedside
drawer. In a magazine, in a video game, in a friend's
house
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Is it too late to celebrate?
National Newspaper Columnist Day was April 18th. You
were probably to dazed from filling out your Extortion &
Tribute forms for the IRS. So, belatedly, this weekend
before Memorial Day, we pause to remember...
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Lost continent gives up its secrets
A LOST continent has been identified by geologists
working in the southern Indian Ocean. It was formed 110
million years ago by a huge volcanic eruption, then sank
back beneath the sea 20 million years ago.
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A land that men never forget
The more lost continents are discovered, the more they
are likely to be created in the minds of men.
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The real Animal Farm
After years of research, the location of George Orwell's
classic novel has been pinpointed to Bury Farm in
Hertfordshire. But the discovery has prompted a furious
debate.
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It's silly season in Iceland
The Lagarfljót monster and other water beasts
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Everything you know is wrong: Red wine no longer prevents
heart disease
The belief that drinking red wine protects the French
against heart disease has been exploded by scientists
who say it is only a matter of time before levels of the
illness are the same on both sides of the English
Channel.
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Deborah's Choice. A gunman stopped her abortion. And gave
her a burden she can't bear.
Deborah Gaines suit against Preterm for "wrongful life"
-- her argument that her daughter should never have been
born -- and that Preterm is responsible.. "It shouldn't
have happened to me," she says. And somebody's got to
pay.
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Smoke and mirrors
Planned Parenthood's conspiracy to end free speech
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