Word: aborted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really is an accident, and the same can be said of what happens to Nuyen. She is the King's concubine, and he loves her soft yellow skin. He just doesn't want it on any child of his. When she gets pregnant, he orders her to abort. When she refuses, he moves out. When she gives birth to the baby, she dies. It's as simple as that, and no court costs...
...Senate two-thirds rule strikes a happy numerical compromise between complete majoritarianism and one-man veto. Why, I wonder, is two-thirds a happier compromise than three-fourths or four-sevenths, or five-eights, or three-fifths? Why, except that it has been sufficient for one hundred years to abort legislation attempting to implement the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments...
...abortion is outlawed in any form except when it may serve to save the life of the woman; in six states it may also be performed "to save the life of the unborn child." All other abortions, no matter how or where performed, or by whom, are classified as "illegal operations." It is illegal to abort a woman suffering from an incurable disease if having the baby would not actually kill her; it is illegal to perform an abortion on a woman who in early pregnancy contracts German measles (in some 20% of such cases, the child will be born...
...Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted at any given time. Last November, when the capsule carrying Enos, the space chimp, ran into trouble on the second of three planned orbits, Chris Kraft needed just five seconds to decide to abort the mission, timed the firing of the braking rockets so well that the capsule splashed into...
...weary of passion, lectures rather than letches. "What I love in you-rectitude, healthiness, integrity-is precisely what your love for me would destroy," he writes Héléne. So Héléne returns to her fiancé, body unseduced but mind converted to an abort-as-you-go philosophy of premarital sex. Author Vailland, 54, can be both tough and mordant, as he brilliantly proved in The Law, a grim parable of the jostling hierarchies and jealousies in an Italian village. In Turn of the Wheel, written nine years earlier, his feuding couple...