Word: overnighter
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...waiting period will go into effect if the Supreme Court upholds that provision in the Pennsylvania law. Though it sounds benign enough, it can confound poor women who already have to travel long distances to find a clinic, only to discover they must also scrape together the price of overnight accommodations. Often by the time they get the money together, they have advanced into the second trimester, when the cost is higher. (Only 12 states -- Mississippi is not one of them -- routinely provide Medicaid financing for abortion.) Nancy Rogers owns one of the clinics near Jackson. Two years ago, when...
...future are likely to become magnets for women from nonabortion states. In the 2 1/2 years preceding Roe, nearly 350,000 women traveled for that reason to New York, which was at the time one of the few / states in which abortion was legal. Referral agencies popped up overnight to charge the out-of-staters as much as $100 for the names of abortion doctors. As prices climbed as high as $1,000, abortion became a hustler's game. "There were doctors who were literally becoming millionaires," says Dr. Irving Rust, the medical director of a Planned Parenthood clinic...
...from the housing complex are other signs of transformation. Melbourne's skyline is a jumble of gleaming glass-and-steel boxes, tossed up almost overnight in the 1980s property boom. But beneath the glitter there is gloom. Last year the Melbourne city council announced that the number of beggars in the streets had increased for the first time since the Depression. The gap between rich and poor grew worse in the past decade, typified by the activities of Australia's over-leveraged business tycoons, whose rise and fall earned the country much publicity overseas. A decade that academic Hugh Stretton...
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...group, part of the school's Coalition forCivil Rights, held an overnight sit-in Clark'soffice to protest the lack of diversity in facultyhiring. The nine were third-year student CharisseCarney and second year students William Ansprach,Julie Fu, Jodi Grant, Derek Homore, Lucy Koh,Elizabeth Moreno, Jill Newman and Marie-LouiseRamsdale...