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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

N.C. one of first states to allow abortion

Procedure legalized in 1967; if Roe was overturned, push for changing law probable

By David Ingram
WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL

RALEIGH


North Carolina didn't wait for Roe vs. Wade to begin allowing legal abortions.

Back in 1967, the state became one of the first in the nation to change its laws and allow women to end their pregnancies in certain cases. The circumstances were narrow at first, requiring women to show that the pregnancy threatened their life or health, that the child would be born with a defect, or that the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.

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