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...same advantages that recommend Norplant to many women also raise the specter of abuse. Some health experts fear that legislators and judges will try to use the method as a way of restricting the reproductive freedom of teenagers, drug users, convicted child abusers or even the mentally ill. Economist Isabel Sawhill at the Urban Institute, a Washington-based research organization, recently published a paper in which she suggested that all teenagers be encouraged to use Norplant at puberty. "The decision to have a child would become a conscious choice -- decoupled from the dictates of biology, hormones and peer pressure...
...arrival of new reproductive technologies--such as in vitro fertilization and embryo transplantation--requires feminists to discuss the language and values involved in how society perceives reproduction, said Isabel Marcus, a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo...
...pruned stump of a tree branch above the commander's head has fresh green shoots, suggesting that the state is replenished by merciless excision. The Weavers would satisfy anyone as a genre picture of women at work, spinning the woolen yarn for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Isabel; but its meanings unravel far beyond that, back to the fable of Arachne in Ovid's Metamorphoses, taking in complicated references to Titian and even to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling...
...strives for what he think is right," says Isabel Ocasio, in Puerto Rico. Wendell's mother, Isabel may not be his sternest judge, but she says that, after 20 years, his willingness to confront tough issues unflinchingly has earned respect from his friends and peers...
...upswing in sight. Mainline congregations, says Isabel Rogers, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), are "no longer the primary shapers of values in American society." What, then, does their decline portend for a society that has been so largely built upon their values and precepts? That is hardly a trivial matter. How the nation defines itself spiritually will have much to do with its future political directions and with the strength of its moral foundations, which are increasingly under siege by drugs, violence and pervasive greed...