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		<title>Winning Roe v. Wade: Q&amp;A with Sarah Weddington</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago, the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, making abortion legal in all 50 states. Sarah Weddington, an attorney from Texas, was the lawyer who argued for legalized abortion before the high court. She was 26 years old at the time. Years later, the plaintiff, Norma McCorvey (“Roe” in Roe v. Wade), became a pro-life activist. Weddington went on to serve three terms in the Texas House of Representatives, became the first female General Counsel of U.S. Department of Agriculture, and later worked as Assistant to President Jimmy Carter. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin. TIME interviewed Weddington ten years ago about her experience with the case,  and recently caught up with her to discuss the ongoing abortion wars. Below are excerpts from the conversation and audio clips from her historic reargument on October 11, 1972. (PHOTOS: 40 Years After Roe: Inside North Dakota&#8217;s Only Abortion Clinic) Q: Ten years ago, we asked if you thought the Roe v Wade ruling will stand for another 30 more years. You said, “I despair when I look at who has the power today.” Do you still feel that way? Having Obama as president means that if there are any vacancies on the Supreme Court, I think that Obama would be likely to appoint a judge who would favor Roe vs. Wade. What I worry about now and for the next ten years is, will women still have access to abortion? State legislatures have begun to pass all kinds of restrictions that really make it harder for women to access services. If you look at who’s passing those regulations, they are not people who say, “We’re in favor of abortion being available and we just want to be sure they’re safe.” They are people who are totally opposed to abortion. What they really want is to try and do everything they can to be sure there are no abortions available. Q: Legally, those state level laws can’t chip away at the constitutional right. But<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=102950&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Election Night in Hurricane-Darkened New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Lapinski / Far Rockaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Rockaways, nightfall isn’t met with the familiar bloom of glowing windows. This string of seaside neighborhoods, part of New York City’s borough of Queens, is still without heat and electricity and, just minutes after sunset, the world fades to black. People who spend all day cleaning and dragging out the contents of their flooded houses either head to shelter in warmer neighborhoods, or tuck in for a cold night. (PHOTOS: The Toil After the Storm: Life in Sandy’s Wake) Those brave enough to stay on in the streets cluster under scattered generator powered lights.There amid drifts of sand and trash, they charge their mobile devices and draw a sense of warmth, as much each other’s company as from the bulbs. But on Tuesday night, there was another place to gather. Under a cluster of tents and generators provided by the Board of Elections, a makeshift polling supersite hummed in a school parking lot. Poll workers, many of whom had lost their own homes, wore dust masks. A day earlier, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an order allowing people displaced by Hurricane Sandy to vote at any location in New York. Many  chose to return to their devastated neighborhoods. (VIDEO: After Sandy: Polling Site Confusion in Coney Island Read) And so on Election night in the Rockaways, people shared their stories about recovery and feelings of bitterness toward FEMA, the Red Cross and the National Guard, groups that many residents feel took too long to respond. Others said that they have been receiving crucial assistance from private citizens while they waited for the national organizations to arrive.  As people spoke, many cast their eyes to the northwest. From the Rockaways, the glittering skyline of Manhattan is visible, but feels very far away. PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy: Scenes of Wreckage and Recovery<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=93411&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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