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...require a parent's consent to an abortion is that there is no law requiring parental approval of staying pregnant and bearing a child, with its life-changing, lifelong consequences. There are compelling health and safety arguments against pregnancy: teenage girls are 24 times as likely to die of childbirth as of a first-trimester abortion, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. While having a child is one part of the full and complex life of a woman, it often turns out to be the % defining, and confining, fact of a teenager's existence. Eight out of 10 girls...
SOMETIME this week, President Bush will be formally presented with the Congress-approved Family and Medical Leave Act. The President has already declared that he will veto this bill, which provides employees of large companies an assurance of three months of unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption or serious illness...
...that almost a third of all women who are murdered are killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Yet the mind recoils from the notion, from the all but inhuman possibility, that a man would slaughter his pregnant wife and unborn child, whose birth he had been preparing for in childbirth class only minutes earlier...
...hindsight, all the holes in Stuart's story look painfully obvious. Why did Stuart, who had been to Brigham and Women's Hospital several times before, drive to Mission Hill instead of toward his house after the childbirth class? Why did the robber not shoot him first rather than his less threatening wife? After the assailant jumped out of the car, why didn't Charles head back toward the hospital instead of driving around aimlessly? During the 13 minutes he was on the phone with the dispatcher, he could not identify any street signs or landmarks in a city where...
Then last week Stuart's younger brother Matthew, 23, told police that the day before the murder, Charles arranged to meet him after the childbirth class. When Matthew arrived for the rendezvous, Charles tossed a bag through his open car window to his brother and sped off. Later Matthew went out to the Pines River in Revere, outside Boston, and tossed the bag into the water. Last week divers recovered Carol Stuart's Gucci bag, wallet and makeup kit from the river. Matthew also turned over to the police Carol's diamond engagement ring, which supposedly had been stolen...