Word: baptism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic who attended with a friend but wouldn't go through the baptism. "They just told us about the good stuff." -->
...were panicky calls to female acquaintances about diapers and formula, but eventually he mastered the basics. Every morning he would iron a dress for Elisa and put her beautiful hair into braids or pigtails. When she was four, he rented a Queens banquet hall for a party marking her baptism. Says a friend, Mary Crespo: "She was his life. He would always say Elisa was his princess...
...herself. She seems enthusiastic about the Operation Rescue family into which she has been reborn, yet tries to satiate the disappointed pro-choice groups by saying that she is an antiabortion activist only in cases of women trying to abort after the first trimester. As McCorvey will learn, though, baptism into the ranks of Operation Rescue will not make first trimester abortion rights activists welcome her with open arms...
...matter how her political stances have evolved, though, McCorvey's contribution to the history of abortion rights America has already been made. No backyard baptism will change the decision of the Supreme Court. More importantly, even if McCorvey had been an Operation Rescue follower 20 years ago, Weddington and her colleagues would have found another Roe to represent their fight; no doubt, the same rights would have been...
...Christian society. In Hungary, especially, full assimilation was the pattern in the urban professions. During the so-called Bekabeli--the ``time of peace'' from about 1870 to World War I--many of Hungary's university professors were Jewish by birth but had repressed that fact, sometimes even accepting Christian baptism...