Word: parenthood
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...Planned Parenthood's Leslie Sebastian, who has monitored these unlicensed centers, warns that they have a history of deception. As the result of a 1991 congressional investigation, the Yellow Pages Publishers Association agreed to divide listings into ``abortion providers'' and ``abortion alternatives,'' but this does not always work. ``The way the ad read, I didn't know a Christian woman would be on the other end of the phone,'' says a 40-year-old woman who called Cobb Pregnancy Services in Marietta, Georgia (which is not a Care Net facility), looking for an abortion. ``I told her I didn...
...Felicia M. Gordon '97 can now match her mother with a magazine accolade of her own. The daughter of former Planned Parenthood President Wattleton is cited in this month's Vogue as one of several successful young women who grew up with famous, beautiful mothers...
...future of the abortion debate, both sides anticipate more violence. Planned Parenthood president Pam Maraldo, who informally polled some of the organization's 922 clinics last week, says, "The number of threats has increased markedly. This is open season for antiabortion activists." Lawler of Operation Rescue in Massachusetts is just as nervous. "It is a time when pro-lifers should start worrying about their own personal security," he says. "When crazy people start shooting, you can't control where the next crazy will come from." If that is the most important lesson Lawler draws from Salvi's lunacy, then...
...December 30, 1994, in Brook-line, John C. Salvi III, a "Scripture-quoting believer," entered the Planned Parenthood health care clinic and shot and killed Shannon Lowney, a 25-year-old clinic receptionist, and seriously injured three others. Fifteen minutes later, Salvi entered the Preterm Health Services Clinic down the street, where he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols and wounded two others. The reaction? Massachusetts Citizens for Life said: "We are absolutely heartsick at the news of the shootings. We are praying for those persons who have fallen prey to the action of an obviously deranged individual. Such acts...
Attorney General Reno says there is only so much her department can do. But a Planned Parenthood spokesman insists the Beacon Street clinic had been receiving more threats than usual over the past month -- perhaps because it is one of 20 facilities around the country testing RU-486, the so-called French abortion pill. Some Beacon Street clinic workers claim they had asked the local Justice Department office to supply protection -- a charge the U.S. Attorney would not discuss...