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...story of Amy, who took the abortion pill because she believes her family is not settled enough to have another baby, was terrifying. She has a four-year-old son and a good marriage. Financially they are well off, considering they are renovating their home. But the gift of a baby, a new life, is unsettling to them. It is even more unsettling to think that now anyone who feels like Amy, that a baby may make things less simple, can take the RU 486 abortion pill and end a life. What has happened to our society? BETH BOWMAN Manhattan...
...happily married mother of a four-year-old boy, was stunned last year to learn she was again pregnant. She and her husband--who had relied on the rhythm method and condoms for birth control--had been renovating their home outside Seattle, using a number of caustic chemicals. "I thought about the chemicals I had been exposed to and I thought about our very busy lives," Amy says. "I know what I can handle, and our lives were not settled enough or prepared enough for another child." She decided, with her husband's support, to have an abortion...
...July, Kim attempted suicide by slashing her wrists. After last week's divorce filing, her attorney said, "I think she recognizes that this is an opportunity to remove herself from a relationship that has been holding her back." Eminem is seeking joint custody of the couple's four-year-old daughter. Her lawyer says she may seek joint custody of their bank account...
Last week, Life cereal began re-airing the original Mikey-Likes-It commercial, which ran from 1972 to 1984. It features a finicky four-year-old who, contrary to rumor, did not perish from mixing Pop Rocks and Coke but became an ad executive, proving that you can take the boy out of the ads, but he'll still make money there. Mikey should feel right at home. There are lots of other comeback kids...
...change their conduct. The Ford Pinto, alleged to be prone to erupt in flames after rear-end collisions, was taken off the market. Drugs with severe side effects, such as "phen-fen," were yanked from pharmacy shelves. A $1.8 million verdict in 1980 on behalf of a four-year-old girl who had been badly burned in 1970 persuaded a manufacturer to stop making flammable pajamas--and helped spur more rigorous federal regulations on children's sleepwear...