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...MAKING IT impossible for women to receive information about abortion in federally-funded clinics, Rust v. Sullivan will undoubtedly undermine women's health. The reason is simple: It is more dangerous for a woman to go through childbirth than to have an abortion. So concluded eight major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association in a 1989 Supreme Court brief. By restricting access to abortion, Rust will force women to sacrifice their own health for the sake of their fetus--a responsibility not recognized anywhere else in American jurisprudence...
SUPREME COURT Gagging the Clinics The Justices did not disturb the constitutional right to an abortion but made it illegal to discuss the procedure in federally funded centers "Government . . . may validly choose to fund childbirth over abortion." -- CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST, THE MAJORITY OPINION "This is a course nearly as noxious as overruling Roe directly . . ." -- JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN, IN DISSENT...
Louis Begley, a Manhattan lawyer, was a young boy in eastern Poland when World War II broke out. In a remarkable, elegiac novel that surely is mostly memoir, he walks the poisoned ground. His narrator, Maciek, is the son of a prosperous Jewish doctor. Maciek's mother died in childbirth, but a large, protective family surrounds him: grandparents, servants, neighbors, a nursemaid named Zosia and a beautiful aunt, Tania. But solidity melts away as the war and the Jew hunting begin. Maciek's father is evacuated by Russian troops. Tania becomes the mistress of a German officer. She and Maciek...
...could handle the load. More than 90% of the patients are on Medicaid. Many have not graduated from high school. Some women must travel 90 minutes to get to the clinic, and many have no car. Outreach workers visit them monthly to provide instruction on prenatal care, proper diet, childbirth and parenting. And they even offer child-safety seats at cut-rate prices...
...than 80 million African women. Female circumcision -- the mutilation of the external genital organs -- is a centuries-old rite of passage, intended to ensure that young women become desirable wives. It frequently causes life- threatening blood loss and infection. It can also lead to painful intercourse, infertility and difficult childbirth. While often erroneously linked to Islamic scripture, it is not mandated by any religion and is practiced by people of many faiths in some two dozen black African nations, Egypt and the Sudan...