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DALLAS - A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.

Norma McCorvey, who joined with anti-abortion activists nearly 10 years ago, is seeking to have the decision overturned, citing what she says is more than 30 years of evidence that abortions are psychologically harmful to women.

A federal district judge threw out her initial request in June, saying it was not made within a reasonable time. But the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear McCorvey's arguments March 2.


"It's something that I've wanted ever since Day One, and it's happening," McCorvey said from her Dallas home.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040220/ap_on_re_us/roe_v__wade_6

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1. Stop Judicial Activism!

Unless it's Bush encouraging activist judges.

Someone posted here on DU that this is the same court that Pickering was appointed to. Can that be confirmed? The article doesn't mention it.

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2. The court is getting involved in "psychological" problems of women?

Oh, how clever.