Abortion battle plans reshape third party politics
Washington observers report the March for Life on January 22 as a key event in a long campaign to pass a constitutional abortion ban. Activists push for a two thirds House vote and a Senate majority, while NARAL and allied groups push for maintaining abortion rights amid Hyde Amendment challenges and evolving congressional leadership.
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Word oddities and misused terms in everyday speech
Theodore M. Bernstein discusses usage notes on for versus from and fortuitous versus fortunate. Readers debate medical wording and dictionary quirks, including prefixes that intensify negativity and examples like unloose unstrip unzip and unseam from various dictionaries.
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