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Abortion Rights on the Ballot, Again

Oct. 13, 2008
The measures that South Dakota, Colorado and California have taken to end or limit abortion rights have much larger implications.
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic