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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Firm statistics are not available on the number of abortions performed each year nor on who has them. Moreover, the survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute says that most abortions are performed on white, middle-class women because they make up the bulk of the population of women of childbearing...
Filling out and mailing in the questionnaire was voluntary and done anonymously and privately by the women. A large number of women--9480--returned questionnaires...
...University has told the service that it must operate on a buddy system, so that no students are ever made vulnerable by working alone. "If there is an odd number on any given night we either send someone home or try to get another volunteer, because you need groups of two to escort as well as two people here at home base at all times," says Bell...
Expediency is often the father of contention. In a hurried effort to placate Jesse Jackson at last summer's Democratic Convention, Michael Dukakis and his forces ratified significant changes in the party's complex rules governing presidential nominating procedures. One alteration would drastically cut the number of superdelegates, party leaders who automatically become unpledged delegates. Another requires that all primaries and caucuses award delegates on the basis of proportional representation, as opposed to giving extra delegates to the winner in some state contests...
...think [the march] really reenergized people," says Jennifer A. Dunne '89, who organized the 11 charter buses that brought Harvard undergraduates to Washington. "It was really exciting to see it happen and come together. I was astounded at the number of people who went." The level of activism at Harvard, too, is on an upswing, she says...