Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan drew praise from officials at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts and Catholics for a Free Choice, two groups which have criticized pro-lifers for ignoring the social consequences of banning abortion...
...television interview last March, New York Bishop John J. O'Connor said, "I always compare the killing of 4000 babies a day in the United States, unborn babies, to the Holocaust." Responding to this charge at a news conference held this summer. Alfred Moran, executive director of Planned Parenthood said. "To take the position that American women who are having abortions are comparable to the people who perpetrated the Holocaust, is frightening, and I think it's irresponsible." Moran also added that "The Church, anti-abortion and Presidential rhetoric of the abortion issue has created a climate which incites terrorism...
...first explosion occurred shortly before dawn last week at an abortion clinic in Wheaton, Md. Eleven minutes later, a second bomb blast shook a Planned Parenthood office one mile away, in Rockville. No one was hurt, but the eleven-year-old abortion clinic was destroyed, and the Planned Parenthood office sustained an estimated $50,000 in damages...
...attacks were the latest in a nationwide series of violent protests against abortion clinics and family-planning centers. According to Planned Parenthood, fires or explosions have damaged 20 such facilities so far this year, up from four in 1983. Although one group, the "Army of God," has claimed responsibility for bombing clinics in Virginia and Florida, most of the events appear to be unrelated...
...reason why Capron resorts to formulas is that biology is now creating concepts of birth and parenthood faster than the standard English vocabulary can define them. As Capron testified before a House science subcommittee early last month, "Many the new reproductive possibilities remain so novel that terms are lacking to describe the human relationships they can create. For example, what does one call the woman who bears a child conceived from another woman's egg? I'm not even sure we know what to call the area under inquiry...