ABORTION RULING'S 24TH ANNIVERSARY BRINGS OUT OPPONENTS, BACKERS.Byline: Carol Jouzaitis Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper Both sides in the contentious abortion debate The abortion debate refers to discussion and controversy surrounding the moral and legal status of abortion. The two main groups involved in the abortion debate are the pro-choice movement, which generally supports access to abortion and regards it as morally permissible, and the rallied in the nation's capital Wednesday, marking the 24th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision and setting the stage for more bitter feuding over the issue in Congress. During a march on Capitol Hill, thousands of anti-abortion forces vowed to continue their fight against the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Randall Terry Randall A. Terry is an American political and conservative religious activist and musician. He founded the pro-life organization Operation Rescue in 1987 and led the group for its first 10 years. He has been arrested over 40 times for his anti-abortion activities. , leader of the Operation Rescue group, told marchers their job was to ``carry the banner of resistance and replace evil politicians.'' Meanwhile, first lady Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Albert Gore Jr., Gore , speaking at a luncheon hosted by the National Abortion Rights Action League, declared their unity with the ruling's supporters. Gore condemned recent bombings at or near abortion clinics in Tulsa, Okla., and Atlanta, calling them ``assaults against America's deepest principles.'' ``Let there be no doubt we will find the terrorists who committed these horrible acts of the past week and we will punish them to the full extent of the law,'' Gore said. Kate Michelman, NARAL's president, thanked Clinton, Gore and his wife, Tipper, who was also in attendance, for support of abortion rights causes. She said that if Clinton hadn't been elected in 1992, ``there'd be no Roe vs. Wade today.'' Gore has not always been an ally, however. As a congressman in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he voted against federal funding for abortions and for an amendment declaring ``an unborn child'' a ``person'' at conception. He switched his position on abortion issues shortly after being elected to the Senate. Michelman said his prior positions on the issue no longer bothered her. ``He has been a champion of choice for many years,'' she said. Hillary Clinton urged abortion foes to work with the administration to increase the availability of family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. services and to make more educational opportunities available to teens as encouragement to postpone pregnancy. ``I hope that we will be able to find ways of increasing dialogue and working together with people of good faith who do not share extremism as their rallying cry,'' she said. ``I have no illusions about the difficulty of that,'' she added. ``But I have no illusions that there is any other route to take.'' On Capitol Hill, Republicans said they plan to reintroduce legislation that would outlaw a type of late-term abortion late-term abortion Post-viability abortion Medical ethics Any abortion performed after the fetus would be viable if delivered to a nonspecialized health center. See Partial birth abortion. referred to as partial-birth abortion partial-birth abortion n. A late-term abortion, especially one in which a viable fetus is partially delivered through the cervix before being extracted. Not in technical use. by opponents. President Clinton vetoed such a bill last year, and Congress upheld the veto in one of the most emotionally pitched political battles of 1996. ``I'm hopeful that the president will change his mind on this bill and wind up supporting it,'' said Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla. |
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