Conway, trying to appeal to Louisville's large African-American population, invited Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, a civil rights legend, to the district.

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"It's one of my rights - one I'd die for, " it quoted Terry Childers as saying.

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The phrase appeared in federal legislation for the first time this year in the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights introduced in the Senate by John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).

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Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, decided to make the patients' bill of rights the first major piece of legislation taken up since Democrats took control of the chamber earlier this month.

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"You know, I think about the pictures of the young men and women that you'd see in the civil rights movement, you know, well-dressed, backs straight, walking forward into something they're doing for themselves, for their family members and for those that are yet unborn, and I try to think about that in the work that I do every single day here, " Strautmanis said.

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Think it can't happen in the U.S.? In 1987 Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Robert Kasten (R-Wis.) sponsored the Visual Artists Rights Act, which included a resale levy.

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"This bill, for the first time, would recognize a fetus as a person, with rights separate and equal from those of the woman, " said Rep. Hilda Solis, D-California.

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