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...life, and only after surmounting forbidding legal obstacles. Since then, five states have liberalized their punitive 19th century abortion laws. They now permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor...
...births. That compares with about 660 legal abortions per 1,000 live births in Japan (where modern contraceptives such as the pill are illegal), and 85 per 1,000 in Sweden. Colorado's law does not spell out residence requirements, but legal formalities ensure that abortions after rape or incest will be performed only on residents, and Colorado General Hospital has decided not to abort out-of-state patients "except for fetal indications" ?meaning that the child is expected to be malformed...
...Though the California law has since been liberalized, it permits abortions only in cases of rape, incest or clear danger to the mother's mental as well as physical health...
...only dead, there never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo on a Russian moon rocket that gets irretrievably rutted in orbit around the earth. There...
...other times, he opens a kind of panderer's box, tempting men and women to act out the vices of flesh and mind that have always been part of humanity's lot. In graphic dumb show or coarse double-entendre, incest, rape, sodomy, masturbation, sadism and masochism are all depicted or evoked on stage...