Vol. 71/No. 27      July 9, 2007

The bill forces a 24-hour waiting period on women seeking abortions, and requires parental consent for teenage women who want to terminate their pregnancies.

This new law follows by a couple of weeks Rhode Island’s passage of two anti-abortion measures. One would force women to notify their husbands that they plan to have an abortion. The other requires parental consent for minors, as well as stipulating that doctors must first tell women the “possible consequences” of an abortion—a transparent attempt to intimidate those seeking the operation.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will review the constitutionality of restrictive abortion laws in Virginia, Missouri, and Ohio, which contain many of the same provisions as the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws.  
 
July 8, 1957
As we go to press, the first full reports are being received here on the ouster from the Soviet ruling clique of V.M. Molotov, Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Dmitri Shepilov. The dramatic ouster of these leading Stalinist bureaucrats reflects the continuing crisis of the entire Soviet bureaucracy as it erupted at the 20th Congress. There, an admission of Stalin’s heinous crimes was made and a pledge to rectify them was offered as major concessions to the steadily increasing pressure of the Soviet people for democratic rights and improved living standards.

The official communiqué of the Soviet Communist Party on the present development indicates that the four were removed from the all-powerful Presidium of the party’s Central Committee on charges, which closely follow those made by Khrushchev in his historic 20th-Congress indictment of Stalin.  
 
July 9, 1932
There are millions of foreign born workers in this country. They constitute the backbone of American industry. In all the heavy industry, particularly in the unskilled sections, the immigrant workers make up the large bulk of those who keep the wheels of industry and commerce in motion.

But the crisis has been in full force for three years now. No sight of jobs or a reviving industry. There is no reason to doubt that the toiling masses will pass over from patient waiting to militant mass action.

The ruling class is watching this process intently. They are trying with every means at their disposal to head off the rising discontent. The first blows they strike are at the most advanced section of the movement. But they do not hit out directly. Through methods that characterize their hypocrisy, the capitalist legislatures hit out against the foreign born militants.  
 
 
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