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Denise Fairchild was artificially inseminated in 1997. She raised her son with her lesbian partner Therese Leach until the couple split in 2001. Now Fairchild wants to deny her former partner visitation rights, and she's citing Ohio's new constitutional ban on gay marriage. Since they were never legally married under Ohio law, Fairchild claims, Leach does not have the rights of a former spouse. Leach's attorney argues that the amendment doesn't apply to parent-child relationships. "I'm using a piece of legislation that will deny me rights later in life," Fairchild says. "But before...
...following Middle East affairs for more than 20 years, because my abhorrence of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime far exceeded any disquiet I felt about the plotting of the Bush Administration's neoconservatives. Maybe we liberals need to "blink" less and reflect more. David Smith Bournemouth, England The Foxhunting Ban In Verbatim, you quoted Nick Onslow, spokesman for the East Kent Hunt, about the last legal foxhunt before Britain's ban on hunting with dogs took effect [Feb. 28]. Onslow said, "It's a very emotional day. There are people who are in distress, but underlying that is anger...
...that possible? The reason the government can regulate broadcast TV and radio at all is that it owns the air. The FCC licenses frequencies on the airwaves, a public resource. In return, broadcasters must meet public-service requirements and obey decency rules, which ban "language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory activities or organs." That's why the FCC can police four-letter words on NBC but not in a movie or this magazine. (Pornography is different, because the law distinguishes...
...taking longer to break down, a result, says Katrivanou, of "the food and medicine that the average person now consumes, plus the dampness and poor quality of the soil in certain cemeteries." The problem has many Greeks considering cremation, which is illegal in Greece, the only European country to ban the practice. The powerful Orthodox Church's opposition - it argues that cremation is an insult to the deceased - felled two recent attempts to legalize the practice. The current government, which came to power with the support of the Church last March, is unlikely to take on the prelates. But cremation...
Attention, Democrats! Don’t talk with the terms the Right wing has given you. Speak to our generation, the one that was supposed to sweep Kerry into office. Grit your teeth and deal with our country’s irrational ban on doing what Salt’n’Pepa so eloquently urged us all to do in the early 90s. Talk about sex, and my guess is people will listen...