America's conservative states already place some restrictions on abortion, while its more liberal ones allow free access.

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Issues are very important to them and larger, more liberal causes whereas men give primarily for access.

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Graduates already paid more tax through income tax, insisted Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Margaret Smith, who said access to university education should be based on "ability to learn, not ability to pay".

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And, finally, the Liberal Democrat Lord Greaves raises the issue of coastal access in England - a subject he pursued in the last Parliament, during the passage of the Marine and Coastal Access Act.

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Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Kirsty Williams AM argued that every nurse needs access to the training they require to enable them to be fully effective in their role.

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The finance secretary also made fresh calls for responsibility for air passenger duty to be devolved to Scotland and for the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition at Westminster to do more to improve access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said that NHS staff must have access to support and advice "given the anxiety that many of them may face".

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Now, if your super brilliant, earth-shattering kid prefers having daily opportunities for access to, attention by and interactions with professors, elite liberal arts schools and a unique elite university like Princeton are hard to beat.

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Employers cannot expect to recruit and retain the top-tier talent that will allow them to compete globally with rock-bottom wages and college grads cannot expect that a four-year liberal arts education will be sufficient (or even necessary) to grant them access to the highly-paid careers of the next decade and beyond.

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Supported by Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat business secretary who is responsible for higher education, the Office for Fair Access, a regulator, wants a portion of the higher fees to be diverted to outreach efforts.

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Liberal Democrats call the public option the only way to truly reform the health care system by ensuring people have access to affordable coverage and providing low-cost competition to private insurers.

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Conservative AM Russell George raised issues regarding access to waterways, while Plaid Cymru AM Dafydd Elis-Thomas welcomed the discussion on quota and Liberal Democrat AM William Powell asked the deputy minister to expand on stakeholder engagement.

BBC: Statement on the Welsh Fisheries Strategy