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The law in Northern Colorado remains as complex as it is anywhere else, but the willingness of attorneys to take on pro bono work in defense of the "defenseless or oppressed" appears to be exemplary.
Upon admission to the bar, every Colorado lawyer must recite the Lawyer's Oath, which states in part: "I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or the oppressed."
President Clinton calls our gun-free schools "safe zones," but this is a perverted idea of safety: Law-abiding students are defenseless while predatory juvenile delinquents, armed to the teeth, are free to roam.
d) Is a capable adult, not--as her advocates claim--a naive child, defenseless against the president's wiles.
Pro-lifers reply that "civil rights" should be extended not to women seeking abortions but to their fetuses, "the most defenseless members of the human family."