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- NATION, Page 29American NotesLOUISIANALegislative Follies
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- Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go
- partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the
- state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach.
- They not only passed the strictest anti-abortion law adopted
- by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to
- encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty
- to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record
- companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant
- sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest.
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- Thus Governor Buddy Roemer inherited some worthy
- opportunities for the veto. He used it on the abortion ban last
- week only days after thumbing down the lewd-lyrics law on the
- ground that it violated free-speech protections. The
- legislators may return to the capital Aug. 18 to consider
- whether to override the vetoes.
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