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...heart. If the right thumb overlaps the left, he thinks with his mind. No juice." That may be great for recognizing male JPs, but inexplicably W has so far failed to inform its readers on how to recognize a female JP, although it listed Lee Radziwill, Cristina Ford and Mme. Georges Pompidou as juicers...
Within 24 hours, authorities arraigned Mme. Mercier for an "outrage" against public morals, a crime for which she faced up to two years in prison and $3,600 in fines. Mme. Mercier's fellow teachers struck Belfort's three schools for several days in protest, and there was even talk of a nationwide strike...
Last week all charges against Mme. Mercier were thrown out of court, and the Ministry of Education announced a compromise. Starting next fall, for the first time, students will receive "information on reproduction" as part of their regular high school biology classes. To learn more than that about lovemaking, they may enroll in special after-school classes to be run by physicians and representatives of birth-control organizations...
French doctors willing to perform the illegal operation commonly charge $900 or more; a trip to London or Geneva for a legal abortion would cost at least $600. Two friends sent Mme. Chevalier to an office secretary who moonlighted as an "angel maker," as the French call an abortionist. Although the secretary charged only $300, she did the job so badly that Marie-Claire hemorrhaged and was taken to a hospital...
Last week the judge found Mme. Chevalier and the abortionist guilty but acquitted the intermediaries. His sentences were conspicuously light-a suspended 500 franc ($100) fine for Mme. Chevalier, a suspended one-year jail term for the abortionist. That ended the case, but the battle over the abortion law was not likely to fade away...