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...already has five children. Last week she was in the 19th week of a pregnancy she couldn't afford; her husband is unemployed and the family lives on welfare. She also couldn't afford the reduced $425 price of a second-trimester abortion at the clinic near her home in East St. Louis. During her last pregnancy Paine tried to induce miscarriage by taking quinine pills. She ruled out a cheap illegal abortion because a girlfriend bled to death after getting one. "I know other girls who've done different things," she says. "Jumped off the top of dressers...
Abortions are still legal in Texas too. But that doesn't mean doctors can easily perform them. Four years ago, Dr. Curtis Boyd's Dallas clinic came under siege for weeks by antiabortion demonstrators. One day one of the protesters began asking after Boyd's children by name. "How's Kyle?" the man would inquire. "Has he had any accidents?" Then came the handwritten death threat in his mailbox. Boyd moved his family out of town for a while, and on Christmas Eve his clinic was torched. Boyd is back in business today, but with a sharper sense...
...will have had one by the time they are 45. But while there are about 2,500 places around the country that provide abortions -- down from a high of 2,908 ten years ago -- they are mostly clustered around cities, leaving broad areas of the country unserved. A single clinic serves 24 counties in northern Minnesota. Just one doctor provides abortions in South Dakota...
...family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story unravels as Max begins to help out at a free clinic in the slum that Hazari lives in. He starts out saying, "I hate sick people," but ends up finding a part of himself in them. By the end of the movie, he says, "I have never felt more alive than this...
Some of this was surely inevitable in our moiling capitalism; Wal-Mart, perhaps, has done no more than finish off bad shopkeepers and lazy combines. Its bright, clinic-clean stores are the boondocks miracle that Walton wrought...