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...Gore and Lieberman, like "the other side," " are busily directing their attention to middle-class swing voters...
...health-care reform voted for a Republican presidential candidate since my first that doesn't turn the problem over to the guys who can't fix vote, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964...
...The next four years will likely be the last window of opportunity in which to build some legal boundaries around the temptation, posed by the new biotechnologies, to remanufacture the human condition by remanufacturing human beings...
...Perhaps not...
...abortion license remain unbridled for generations...
...Bush appointees might not go the whole way and recognize that there is only one "religion clause" in the Constitution, in which "no establishment" serves the goal of "free exercise...
...a man at home with himself versus pectancies for some groups of African Americans are as low a man constantly reinventing himself (and concocting fairy as in the poorest countries of the world...
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...Beyond the specifics is the larger issue-the judicial usurpation of our democracy...
...A Court dominated by Clinton and Gore appointees could also be counted on to continue the Court's fifty-three-year-long effort to establish secularism as the official creed of the American republic...
...Using imagery from nature, and draming on psychology, contemporary spirituality and Scripture, Rachel Callahan and Rea McDonnell invite mature readers to tend themselves, their relationships, their memories and their future, in cooperation with the "gardener God' who carefully tends and harvests all peopleMcDonnell and Callahan look to Jesus, [he pioneer in all that it means to be fully human and fully alive, and to Mary, who lived through the joys and sorrows of a richly fruitful maturity- From the riches of Scripture they offer readers a vision of aging as a time of great wisdom and grace...
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...This choice dent moves toward enhancing senior citizens' lives through is no doubt partly a matter of simple lethargy: I have never a partial privatization of Social Security...
...Roe's It even, I would argue, shows more appreciation for the preciousness of life across the whole life cycle, especially for the lives of the very vulnerable...
...That is its current status, and that is what Gore appointees would be required to reaffirm as their admission ticket to the bench...
...I suppose it is because of what the Democratic Bolton) established a constitutionally protected regime of Party has been and remains that I believe that Democrats unrestricted abortion-on-demand-a regime recently reafare more likely to address these problems and work to solve firmed in the most uncompromising terms by the Stenberg v. them...
...In our present state of moral and scientific confusion (in which the nation's leading newspaper can blithely describe a human embryo as a "microscopic clump of cells," overlooking the biological fact that that "clump" is what the New York Times's reporters and editors looked like at that stage in their lives), it is just barely conceivable that we will get those boundaries in place in time...
...The country is in an era rights higher than the self-interest of the National Education of unparalleled prosperity and the planet is in a period of un- Association...
...It is hard, admittedly, to point to specific policy proposals that clearly reflect these concerns...
...migrants, of the struggling and the disenfranchised...
...Vice President Al Gore made as one dollar per day per person...
...It shows Should Gore make those three or four nominations and get more appreciation of the interconnectedness of the world his nominees confirmed by the Senate, not only would the and more sense of responsibility for the developing world...
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...Nor am I inspired by what are now the po- I bans on partial-birth abortion...
...One and one-half billion of our sis- The next president will likely make three, perhaps four, ters and brothers on earth live below a poverty line-defined Supreme Court nominations...
...But Gore appointees would certainly render Father Richard Neuhaus's public square even more naked than it already is...
...paign, that he has a stringent litmus test for Court nomiThe Democratic Party does not have solutions to these nees: any potential justice must be firmly committed to the problems...
...And the gap be- tales in the process)-all of these strike me as persuasive reatween rich and poor countries is shockingly large, and ap- sons to vote for George W. Bush for president...
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...But that work will be in vain if the Supreme Court continues to insist, against both Catholic social doctrine and the classic political theory of the West, that freedom is personal autonomy, period, and that "personhood" is something the state ascribes at its pleasure...
...But they would almost certainly not treat abortion-on-demand as the ne plus ultra of constitutionally guaranteed rights...
...an administraparalleled global integration...
...It has been, and is still, more than the Republicans, Carhart decision, which extended the mantle of constituthe party of the working class, of ethnic minorities, of im- tional protection to infanticide...
...And that is why Governor Bush must be elected...
...F~ Mary Jo Bane is the Thorton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy "It's great up here-you can belong to both and Management at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard left- and right-wing organizations...
...The Court's decision in the partial-birth abortion case Stenberg v. Carhart overturned a bill that had been passed by Nebraska's unicameral state legislature 99 to 1-a demonstration of popular will that didn't give the slightest pause to the Court majority...
...for Bill Bradley and Vice President Al Gore trade accusations about who, over the longest period of time, had been Mary Jo Bane the most rabidly prochoice up to the last minute before delivery, or about who might, for one moment, have secretly he restoration of honesty and honor to the presharbored a positive thought about school vouchers, did not idency...
...I think of it as pro-life, pro-family and pro-poor, and I eagerly await an opportunity to vote for it...
...In much of sub-Saharan Africa, and in But the overriding reason is simply stated: the Supreme some countries of the former Soviet Union, life expectan- Court...
...cleansing the sitions of both parties on the death penalty...
...pears to be growing...
...We are, increasingly, a people stripped of the rights of self-government...
...no more presidential vetoes of federal warm my heart...
...a "Not for Rent" sign well-being, is almost as great as it has ever been...
...Harvest Us Home is a reflection on the good news of God's good work in each and every person...
...At the same time, the gap be- tion that understands that the armed forces are not primartween rich and poor in this country, in terms of material ily a laboratory for social engineering...
...Bush has said that he will appoint judges who interpret the law, not make the law...
...It is not the most elegant of formulations, but it gets to the essential point: "We the people" are no longer ruling through our duly elected representatives...
...That is what a Supreme Court dominated by Gore nominees will insist...
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...Unless that trend is reversed, our democracy is in serious jeopardy...
...pruNonetheless, I will vote for Gore-Lieberman...
...cies are actually falling...
...And does anyone believe for a minute that vouchers or some other way of empowering parents to send their children to schools of their choosing would withstand scrutiny by a Court dominated by Clinton and Gore appointees...
...Harvest Us Home Good News as We Age RaCf;° Cai ar•an...
...It offers readers the opportunity to make a prayer pilgrimagesavoring the mysteries of grace they have lived-and to learn about many of the aspects egirg (ccat they are experiencing...
...Would Bush nominees to the Supreme Court jettison Roe as wrongly decided...
...education policies that rate parents' inalienable But there is more to it than that...
...The solutions are very hard, and there are no sim- notion that Roe v. Wade (with its companion case Doe v. ple answers...
...But I believe that their approach to, for example, health insurance, Social Security, and tax cuts or lack thereof is considerably more likely to benefit those who need it most...
...We cannot, in conscience, clear in his acceptance speech, as he has throughout his camignore these facts or disclaim responsibility...
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