Word: flournoy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most eloquent of them is Psychiatrist Henri Flournoy, who cites a typical case history: Mile. X was a schoolgirl, not yet 16, the daughter of a farmer. She had been seduced at a fair in a neighboring village, did not even know the man's name. Her parents wanted a legal abortion. "This young girl, physically healthy, ran no danger either from the bodily point of view or from the mental," says Dr. Flournoy. "But if I had refused authorization, I would have inflicted incalculable damage on her from a psychological point of view...
...Flournoy sees it, there were three alternatives: i) the girl could have kept the illegitimate child, which would have seriously handicapped her chances of "a happy and normal marriage," 2) she could have given the child to the public authorities, which would have caused her "terrible guilt feelings," or 3) and most likely, there would have been a secret and .septic delivery in a hayloft, presided over by her mother and grandmother. Then what would have become of the baby? The question did not arise because Dr. Flournoy and a colleague authorized a legal abortion, which was performed...
...city's reputation as the abortion capital more than Antoine Pugin, head of the cantonal health department and a Catholic. Pugin laid down some stiff rules: hereafter, doctors authorized to approve abortions shall serve only three-year (instead of indefinite) terms. In this way, he dropped Dr. Flournoy. Also, doctors shall make quarterly reports, setting forth their reasons for granting permission in each case. Finally, Pugin decreed, all candidates for abortion must be observed for an indefinite period, at the canton's mental hospital and psychiatric clinic...
...Truck proceeds to Maplewood & Flournoy, meets five men, who drive up in own cars...
Shuffle Along (music & lyrics by Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle; book by Flournoy Miller & Paul Gerard Smith) is an almost totally different show from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained...