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- <text id=91TT2450>
- <title>
- Nov. 04, 1991: American Notes:Abortion
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- ABORTION
- Next Stop: Supreme Court
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In recent years a number of state laws restricting abortion
- have been winding through lower-court challenges toward a final
- showdown in the Supreme Court. Tracking their progress has been
- like witnessing a car crash in slow motion, because any of them
- might lead to an explosive ruling that would overturn Roe v.
- Wade, the 1973 decision that created abortion rights.
- </p>
- <p> Last week a federal appeals court set the stage for that
- collision when it upheld most of Pennsylvania's law, putting
- that statute first in line for possible review by the high
- court. The lower court approved provisions of the law requiring
- parental consent for minors and a 24-hour waiting period before
- abortions, but struck down a provision requiring husbands to
- give their consent when their wives seek an abortion. Though the
- Justices could uphold the Pennsylvania statute without
- overturning Roe, the decision will be closely watched for signs
- that the arrival of Clarence Thomas has consolidated a high-court
- majority that opposes abortion rights.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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