Legal precedents dictate that abortion regulations protect women's health and lives, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan said in her second day of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, PBS' "Newshour" reports (Ifill, "Newshour," PBS, 6/29). The bulk of Tuesday's session featured "friendly questions" from committee Democrats and "sharper grilling" from Republican senators on issues such as gun rights, military policy and Kagan's clerkship for former Justice Thurgood Marshall (Goldstein/MacGillis, Washington Post, 6/30).On the topic of abortion rights, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif...
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