Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conceived in a Petri dish, not a test tube, and she developed and was born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous indifference to childbirth and motherhood. It's a glorious day for women afflicted with the type of sterility Mrs. Brown has overcome...
...parents, Martina came home to her talents. Mastering an emotional temperament and harnessing her formidable gifts to new-found concentration and a newly designed "lucky dress," Navratilova reeled off a string of indoor victories. For the first time since injury blunted Billie Jean King's game and motherhood interrupted Evonne Goola-gong Cawley's career, Evert faced a legitimate challenger to her hegemony...
...best fast food in the Square: thick, reasonably-priced sandwiches that make you wonder why you ever put up with Mom's lousy cooking. The Turkey Deluxe (T.D., for the football fans out there) is a classic, and the hot pastrami and cheese ranks up there with motherhood and the flag as something worth fighting for. The decor is, in a word, crummy (in two words, very crummy), but you can go somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when the Governor often has to call in the National Guard to keep...
Payment of fees to mothers who put their children up for adoption is illegal in most states, but Keane thinks surrogate motherhood-using the husband's sperm-is a special case. This month he and an associate, Attorney Robert Harrison, took the issue to court; they asked a Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children...
...referendum to repeal a gay rights ordinance is scheduled for May 23. As of last week, pro-repeal groups in Eugene had not requested help from Anita Bryant. One such organization, known as VOICE, announced that it would stick to political arguments and not raise issues of God and motherhood in its repeal efforts. "We are against any select group having their conduct protected," said VOICE Campaign Worker Michelle Barton...