Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First Mr. Gooen suggests that the majority of state laws banning abortion before Roe were intended not to safeguard the life of the fetus, but rather to protect the mother from dangerous proceedings. The only evidence he offers in support of this is the fact that most of these statutes criminalized only the abortionist and not the would-be mother. This proves only that those outraged by abortion, then as now, understood that abortion was a crime in which often the woman would be victimized almost as much as the unborn child. Also, since 36 of the states had abortion...
...sixth week of pregnancy, but even under conservative interpretations of Roe abortions are routinely performed up until the 24th week. Second, of course, Roe is not conservatively interpreted: the part of the decision that bars state prohibitions even in the third trimester in cases where the health of the mother is endangered has been so liberally construed as to include such open-ended absurdities as "economic" and "psychological" health, which essentially means that a woman can complain of the impact of having a child on her future income stream in order to get it "terminated...
...trek uptown to 104th Street for the season's joyfullest noise. Mama I Want to Sing is a "story in concert," in which a disc jockey narrator spins out the tale of a young girl who dreams of becoming a pop singer. Her father is a Harlem minister, her mother a traditionalist who believes the only good music is God's music. This becomingly naive plot--a black Jazz Singer or a prequel to Dreamgirls--is sturdy enough to support a dozen or so knockout gospel singers, with a spirit that cradles the audience in its communal warmth. Steve Williams...
...both sides of the footlights, Mama is very much a family affair. The audience is composed largely of black families in their Sunday best, and onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy Higginsen (Troy's sister) and Kenneth Wydro (Higginsen's husband); Higginsen frequently plays the narrator, and her brother Randy plays the minister. After the rousing curtain call, Randy moves to the theater exit and, ever the good shepherd, greets the congregation as it leaves...
...organized crime, and she did not hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned on the streets of New York. Throughout, Ferraro remained courageous...