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Many of the new state laws ignore medical definitions and rely instead on the emotionally charged phrase partial birth. In Arkansas, one of the states where new laws are being contested in court, Little Rock lawyer and state legislator Lisa Ferrell said last week that she knew the law contained no actual medical definition of partial birth but she voted for the measure because the procedure is "horrifying." The Arkansas ban, like the one passed by Congress, does not take into account the health of the pregnant woman or make a distinction between a viable fetus and a nonviable...
...festival seemed almost to be a "deja vu" of this summer's Lillith Fair--Lisa Loeb, Paula Cole and Sarah McLachlan were all present. McLachlan, who headlined Sunday evening, was by far the biggest drawer of the weekend Fans who stuck around in the crowds and cold weather long enough to hear her play were definitely rewarded. MIX, who was broadcasting live from the concert and filling the intermissions with their own airwaves, goofed big time by playing McLachlan's hit "Building a Mystery" moments before she opened live with that song. Although many fans booed when it happened, they...
Stansfield's new album, Lisa Stansfield, is the British singer's reintroduction to American audiences (her last U.S. release, Real Love, was in 1991). "We released a [follow-up] album, but it wasn't released in the states," says Stansfield. "Nothing was going on here that it sort of fit in with." But now, with lightly talented, heavily marketed acts like the Spice Girls tearing up U.S. charts, why shouldn't Stansfield have another...
...Most of Lisa Stansfield is a slow-building, slow-burning pleasure. This is soul lite, harking back to the '70s, to Barry White, Roberta Flack and Diana Ross. The song Never, Never Gonna Give You Up evokes the throb of disco, but in a comely, cooing, classic way; Honest is a soul-baring ballad with an intimate, unadorned sound that leaves Stansfield's voice free to shimmer in the foreground; and I Cried My Last Tear, Last Night is an unabashed I-won't-get-stepped-on-in-relationships call to arms that makes its case passionately but not gratingly...
...Lisa Beyer/Jerusalem