Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photograph of a dead woman. "She was 24 years old, married, and had a child of two. She had an abortion, done by her concierge. Voila: dead of septicemia [blood poisoning] because she could not afford $500 for a safe abortion in England. That is why I signed the manifesto, because of this woman and others like...
...manifesto, issued last week and signed by 390 French doctors, makes bold demands on a nation that has successfully resisted even moderate abortion reform for half a century; it calls for unrestricted abortion on request -and at the expense of the state. Many of the signers are prominent in medicine and some are practicing Catholics. All, moreover, acknowledge that they have performed or arranged abortions because "we believe it is our duty to help women." The doctors realize that their admission makes them liable to punishment under France's archaic law prohibiting abortion except to save a woman...
...days after the manifesto appeared, 206 well-known French citizens -including four Nobel prizewinners -added their voices to the demand for reform. They issued a "charter" calling for abortion on several grounds, among them poor health, rape, incest and "grave social conditions...
Appearing only four weeks before the sharply contested national elections, the manifesto and charter have provoked bitter controversy across France. For the first time since the present abortion law was passed in 1920, chances for reform seem good...
...those seemingly loveless works that, like virtually the entire catalogue of John Cage, may eventually turn out to be more important as philosophical statement than as musical expression. The odds are good, for example, that it will never be any more popular than Arnold Schoenberg's atonal manifesto of 1912, Pierrot Lunaire; yet it could well rival its historical importance...