Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the red light of the television camera winks on, most people also light up, becoming warmer and more animated than their everyday selves. But when Faye Wattleton, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sits before the camera's eye -- something she is doing with ever greater frequency...
But she feared that all she had worked for was in danger when the Supreme Court handed down its Webster decision this past July, permitting states to narrow a woman's access to abortion. Planned Parenthood, the nation's oldest and largest family-planning organization, is also the premier institution...
"Since Webster," she said to a group of suburban supporters at a fund raiser recently, "we now must fight this battle in 50 states." Cold fire stirs in her voice. "If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will...
Her natural reserve is in contrast to the effusiveness of the dozens of newspaper and magazine articles about her. Publicity is a principal part of her brief; Wattleton's main job as president of Planned Parenthood is to be the organization's spokeswoman. Thus promoting herself is advancing Planned Parenthood...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My...