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Most take-charge efforts are passive compared with some militant American responses to crime and other threats. A Colorado-based group called Safety for Women and Responsible Motherhood is composed of 1,500 women who want to liberalize Colorado's concealed-weapon law so they can carry handguns more readily. ``We have a growing obligation to protect ourselves,'' says Becki Tschirpke, the group's vice president. At the same time, from the forests of Montana to the orange groves of Florida, local militias have formed to do battle against perceived incursions by the Federal Government into individual rights...
Junior's central joke. Sure, this is formulaic, describe-it-in-one-sentence movie-making, but nevertheless, there is a certain irresistible curiosity about seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger mime the rituals of expectant motherhood. Go ahead, surrender to it. It won't make you a better person, but it might, very briefly, make you a happier...
...indeed, we have all been flailing about for explanations, trying to make sense of a seemingly incomprehensible act, wondering why a young mother might kill her offspring. And therein lies our problem. By focusing on the fact of her motherhood and by assuming that this biological position confers greater moral responsibility on a person, we lose sight of some of the real issues at hand...
...poet Adrienne Rich '51 has written of "the invisible violence of the institution of motherhood to mothers: the guilt, the powerless responsibility for human lives, the judgments and condemnations, the fear of her own power, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt...
...More girls in the U.S. are postponing motherhood. For the first time since 1986, the number of births to girls age 15 to 17 fell 2%, from 188,226 in 1991 to 187,549 in 1992. The number of abortions was also lower...