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...shed their images as sprawling, complicated, emergency-oriented places. One method is slicker packaging. Hospitals have reorganized their services into neatly thematic departments devoted to problems ranging from impotence to sports injuries. In Philadelphia, where medical competition has grown intense, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital advertises special clinics to handle childbirth, eating disorders, sleeping problems, Alzheimer's disease and hearing loss. A print ad for Jefferson's bulimia program shows an attractive female model who says, "Eating ruled my life. I called Jefferson." The ad even provides a catchy toll-free number: 1-800-JEFF...
...March, Friedan joined a coalition that supported a 1978 California law requiring employers to grant as much as four months of unpaid leave to women who are disabled by pregnancy or childbirth. The law may sound innocuous, but it is a red flag to the many feminists and civil libertarians who say that singling out women for special benefits is discriminatory and dangerous. For this reason, NOW and the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union are in effect supporting a legal challenge to the California law brought by a Los Angeles bank. Friedan says...
...Tatum retreated to the Malibu house that they purchased last year from Johnny Carson (price tag: $1.85 million and three hours of tennis lessons), enrolled in Lamaze childbirth class and awaited the baby's arrival. Since Kevin's birth May 23, McEnroe has shared in the 3 a.m. feedings and even changed diapers. "I've seen it with my own eyes," says his mother Kay. Fatherhood, McEnroe says, has "changed things for me in the sense that your priorities change and you do things differently . . . It's the best thing that's ever happened...
...there are 9,144 newspapers, 11,328 periodicals, 9,824 radio stations, 941 commercial TV stations and 300 public TV stations. Every kind of subject, from sex to childbirth, from economics to how to build a house, from politics to gardening to baseball to Lyndon LaRouche, is printed and aired and ventilated. This almost preposterous tide of information and opinion is not censored or jammed. American book publishers offer some 50,000 titles every year. One can have all of Shakespeare in paperback for a few dollars--or for the same price can go to see the revenge fantasies...
Gaye Williams, former president of Harvard's Black Students Association, speaks. She cites that Black women are three times as likely to die in childbirth than six years ago, when Reagan took office. Black children are twice as likely to die in their first year of life than six years ago, when Reagan took office...