Word: aborts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proves herself a master of many genres, but she's no dabbler--what makes this album a wonder is how personally she takes everything. Hill's songs detail, painfully, intelligently, her problems with manipulative men, her childhood in New Jersey, her decision, as a young single mother, not to abort her baby boy. "Sometimes it's hard to really make any statements when you know that the industry caters to hit singles rather than to developing artists," says Hill. "[But] I definitely felt like I wanted to push the envelope of hip-hop. It was very important to me that...
Helen Schulman has proved once again the incredible selfishness of human beings who claim they want to be parents, but only if they are parents of their own biological children [BOOK EXCERPT, May 18]. I believe she truly mourns the loss of the babies that were spontaneously aborted, but what of the child whose parents "spontaneously abort" their role as caregiver? With the world as overpopulated as it is, could Schulman not parent one of those children? After all, she herself said, "The person I saw myself as was a person who took care of a child." Not just...
...near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...International Criminal Court is far from a perfect idea, but that is all it is right now--an idea, not even an unsigned piece of paper. To abort it now, before it is even born, is an act of cowardice and complicity...
...century and sought no less than to alter Western assumptions about human life. But that role is not really what the critics want to dwell upon. What's on their mind is the stands Pope John Paul has taken on--women. On their right to take holy orders, to abort a fetus, to frustrate insemination by artificial means. And they want to talk about the overexercise of papal authority, about the discipline he has exercised over dissident theologians...