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Next year in NYC
New York Sun, by Seth Lipsky
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Posted By:Toledo, 1/26/2013 8:28:29 AM
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| Four days after President Obama was sworn in for his second term, another large crowd hit Washington — pro-lifers who came by the busload to mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which overturned two centuries of law and prohibited the states from banning most abortions. Each year at this time, this growing band of optimistic Americans marches in Washington, since that’s where the Supreme Court sits. But they might consider marching in New York next year. For America’s biggest city is also America’s abortion capital.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/26/2013 12:02:38 PM (No. 9140591)
The best way to make abortions "rare" is to make them harder to get. Why are late abortions, for instance, entitled to Constitutional protection? Can´t the so-called right to choose be exercised early on in a pregnancy? And is the there really a protected "right to choose" not to have a handicapped child?
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msjena, 1/26/2013 12:03:59 PM (No. 9140592)
I forgot to add that protesting in NYC is probably hopeless--abortions were legal in NY even before Roe v. Wade.
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