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...referendum also attempted to measure student response to a recent Harvard Law Review parody of an article by slain feminist legal scholar Mary Joe Frug, Antonson said. Many have called the parody a symptom of deeper tensions at the Law School...
...CHOICE GROUPS ARE PREparing for the day when they will have to provide an abortion underground, with networks to help women get to states where abortion is available. Some are urging more radical solutions. Carol Downer, director of the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, based in Los Angeles, travels widely to talk to women's groups about "menstrual extraction," a home-abortion procedure she co-developed in the early 1970s. A suction technique similar to the vacuum-aspiration process that is now the most common form of first-trimester abortion, it requires a 50-mL syringe attached...
...abortion-rights troops also caught Operation Rescue by surprise. Some of them, including members of the Feminist Majority Foundation, showed up a month ago to set up a secret command center, train people to defend the clinics with predawn human barricades, and monitor through a network of walkie-talkies and cellular telephones every move of the antiabortion forces. Last week the abortion-rights contingent of 500 matched Operation Rescue's body for body...
Another candidate who has excited interest among women is Carol Moseley Braun, who upset incumbent Al Dixon in the Illinois Democratic Senate primary in March. Feminists seized on her triumph over Dixon, who voted for Thomas' confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, as evidence that the Hill-Thomas backlash would propel women to power. "That was an improbable victory," says veteran feminist Betty Friedan, "so now it seems like an augury of things to come." But was it? Braun, a strong supporter of abortion rights, owed her victory less to women's anger than to the arrogance and myopia...
...presence of so many women on the campaign trail has chipped away at the novelty of female candidates; it is now thinkable that someday women candidates will simply be taken for granted. "It's a boost no matter what happens," says Katherine Spillar of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "Those who don't win will be better positioned to run and win next time." Women candidates are scoring big in 1992 -- and the election is still seven months away...