Word: mental
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Certainly this exercise has value. History contains a rich catalogue of loser statements, whose authors can be ranked according to the sportsmanship code and assigned appropriate moral victories. Even so, the loser himself well knows that he remains a loser; only by heroic mental gyrations can the also-ran restage the race in his favor. Obviously, triumph and defeat are defined by society rather than the individual. If a Ted Williams bats .400, for instance, the grandstand regards a .300 batter as a loser?and so does...
...American woman in virtually all the states could get a legal abortion only to save her 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...
...hospitals set up abortion committees, and abortions were performed in 21 of these (three received no applications). A survey by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado Medical Center showed that of the 407 patients aborted, 278 (or 68%) were Colorado residents. The woman's mental health, not previously admissible as a ground for abortion, was the reason most frequently advanced under the new law? in 291 cases, or 72%. Next commonest were fetal indications, invoked for 47 patients, and 46 rape cases, of which 32 were statutory and 14 "forcible." Medical reasons involving the woman...
...abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have im-pressed the psychiatrist, but in this case he was convinced that pregnancy and childbirth might be enough to precipitate severe mental illness...
Episcopal Chaplaincy; Freshman Football Team; Freshman Tennis Team; Group Leader, Mental Hospitals Committee, PBH; Dunster House Hockey Team; Varsity Football Team; Dean's List...