Word: motherhood
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...sleaziness of this particular affair did not account for its disturbing effect on the public. From Baby Doe's birth on Jan. 10, he was seen and discussed as a piece of inferior merchandise, an imperfect creature come into the world as damaged goods. The mother disavowed motherhood; the father said "Not mine." Yet there was the child, frail but present. Deposited on the doorstep, he had to belong to someone...
...small a head, a sign of probable mental retardation? What happens when one is reminded of the numerical odds in such things, when normal reality intrudes on the man-made miracle? It was easy to condemn Stiver for feeling no motherly connection to the child, yet surrogate motherhood necessarily precluded those feelings, indeed made reasonable her self-imposed detachment. It was easy, too, to be appalled by Malahoff's rejection, but the baby he originally ordered up was to be his own, not another father's. Oh yes, there was the matter of the deformity, which cried...
...mothered her children, took up good works, supported a league that promoted breast feeding and saw to the rebuilding of the hospital in Monte Carlo that bears her name, and in which she died. Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York called her "a lesson in Catholic motherhood," and Brigitte Bardot called her "l'Altesse Frigidaire"-Her Majesty the Frigidaire. She is widely credited with giving Monaco the dignity and luster, and of course the splendid tax loophole, in the person now of Prince Albert, the heir apparent, that have helped to bring the once dilapidated old clip joint...
Superficially, one risks being thought a perverse neo-Keynesian mandarin if one comes out against balanced budgets. It is like being against motherhood-or worse. The balanced-budget amendment stipulates that before each fiscal year, Congress shall prepare a plan in which income and outgo match. The rule may be waived in time of war. Otherwise, deficit spending is permitted only when three-fifths of both houses approve the indulgence...
...been a family physician for eight years when she decided to scrap her New Jersey practice and retrain as an obstetrician-gynecologist. The 35-year-old doctor was drawn to the field by the rewards she had experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel Hospital, but soon...