Word: fujimura
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...lawsuit contends that the ban damages women?s health and violates their rights. They've marshaled compelling evidence: a relative increase in maternal deaths, reports of botched back-alley abortions, and children born into families that can't afford to raise them. "The consequences are far-reaching," says Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, a legal adviser to the Center for Reproductive Rights. "In the 15 years we've been involved in legal reform for reproductive rights, this is one of the most devastating bans we?ve ever seen...
...Japanese filmmaker Kaze Shindo's first film Love/Juice, an am-I-or-aren't-I lesbian story that won her Rookie of the Festival award in Berlin three weeks ago. Interesting territory even for Japan: two roommates, lesbian photographer Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) and friend Kyoko (Chika Fujimura), do drugs, sleep and brush teeth together. Chinatsu quickly falls in love with Kyoko. They kiss and touch one another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale...
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