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Article: Abortion Rights Said To Be at a Crossroads; Mont. Ex-Legislator Takes NARAL Helm
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- The Washington Post
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- November 19, 2004
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Nancy Keenan, the new president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is
taking the lead of an organization facing the most critical, pivotal
time in its history.
An antiabortion conservative majority rules Congress. President
Bush is likely to appoint at least one, and perhaps two or three,
Supreme Court justices. Emboldened religious conservative groups are
vowing to lobby heavily for Supreme Court appointments that will
ensure that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing
abortion, is reversed.
It is safe to say that NARAL Pro-Choice America, the political arm
of the abortion rights movement, is facing its biggest fight since
the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
But Keenan, in an ...