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Roe v. Wade, at Forty
It's 40 years to the day since the US Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. We update America's most bitter cultural controversy.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenIt's 40 years to the day since the US Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a constitutional right to abortion. We look at life before and after Roe v. Wade and update America's most bitter cultural controversy. Also, the Senate returns today to busy week in Congress, and documentary evidence of a sex-abuse cover-up at the highest level — this time in the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles — America's largest.
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3 storiesSenate Returns Today to Busy Week in Congress
The first tests of President Obama's second term are coming soon, in both the House and the Senate. Ed O'Keefe is congressional reporter for the Washington Post .
Read the story8 minRoe v. Wade: Still Fighting after All These Years
When the Supreme Court legalized abortion 40 years ago today, it may have settled the law, but it started the most bitter of all the battles in America's ongoing culture war. Roe v. Wade pitted a woman's right to choose against the right of a fetus to live, an issue that divides America.
Read the story34 minFiles Point to Child Sex Abuse Cover-up at LA Archdiocese
Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Roger Mahony, then Archbishop of America's largest Roman Catholic Archdiocese, plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law enforcement. That's according to new evidence reported today by the Los Angeles Times .
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