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...event, sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice, marked the 15th anniversary of the death of Rosie Jimenez due to a botched abortion...
Abortion rights supporters have blamed Jimenez's death on the 1976 Hyde amendment, which prevented the use of Medicaid funds for abortions...
...After years of delay, the government only last week began to install 36 flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter's hand to show a scar. The seven-year-old is barefoot, filthy, with sores on her mouth...
...bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness. The movie chooses irony over sentiment for its basic tonality, and is the better for that uncommercial choice...
...BOYS Directed by Mark Rydell; Screenplay by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez and Lindy Laub...