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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jun. 19, 2007

Undermining Pregnant Women’s Rights Is Part of Bush’s Legal Legacy

Forum Column - By Sylvia A. Law - Judicial holdings that pregnancy has nothing to do with gender have consequences that are anything but laughable.

FORUM COLUMN

By Sylvia A. Law

     
      Whatever happens in the 2008 elections, the federal judiciary will be a lasting legacy of President Bush. Although the implications of his nominees to the federal bench are being watched, Bush's judiciary changes will not be limited to the Supreme Court or simply abortion. In March, a divided panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Title...

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