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Amid the hullabaloo following the Supreme Court’s five-to-four decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, America’s elite newspapers responded predictably...
...having “endorsed a wrongheaded law” and “lent credence to the unsettling notion that Congress” can interfere with personal medical decisions. Yet, in the same breath, the Windy City daily conceded the “admittedly unsettling aspect of partial-birth abortions” and confessed that “any kind of abortion procedure can be grim...
Joining the apocalyptic chorus, the Washington Post decried the “paternalistic pretense” underlying the “elevation of the importance” by the Court “in protecting the fetus throughout pregnancy.” Despite depicting partial-birth abortion as an “admittedly gruesome procedure,” the Post editorialists concluded that the “ominous” implications outweighed any practical consideration of the practice in question...
...Understanding the Gender Gap,” in which she argued that the increasing participation of women in the workforce was a slow and historical process not dependent on the advances of any one generation.She followed this up with three papers studying the positive effect of the birth control pill on women’s willingness to invest in careers, all co-authored with Katz.“We’re probably pretty good at monitoring each other’s work hours,” Katz says.Goldin says her work on the pill was “very...
Last week’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the Congressional ban on “partial-birth abortion” was the focus of an unconventional protest at Harvard Law School yesterday, when students from a law seminar carried a black cardboard coffin, symbolizing the decision in that case, through the rain from Langdell Hall to the Charles River. The group of seven women and one man who put on the mock funeral procession called themselves Women Against the Majority Opinion. They wore black and handed out fliers describing their protest as they walked through the streets...