Word: parenthood
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Women's groups including Planned Parenthood and NOW reject Baird as "irrelevant." Robin Morgan, editor of Ms. magazine, called him "one of the more male-supremacist men around" and accused him of fighting for women's rights in order to get them to sleep with...
Otherwise, pro-life demonstrators outside an abortion clinic should not be condemned as violators of a woman's right to privacy, even when they approach her with information on adoption and support for pregnant women. This is no different from what Planned Parenthood workers do when they give out pamphlets on abortion. It is no more intrusive to have a perfect stranger tell you how to have your baby adopted than to be told about how to have it aborted...
Some female students argued that many girls wanted to sleep with these boys. Plainly, Lakewood's teen population is sexually active. According to the local Planned Parenthood office, which serves Lakewood and two other towns, 2,989 teenagers visited its clinic last year. Of those, 547 tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease. Of the 949 girls given pregnancy tests, 385 tested positive...
...already led to the resignation of two doctors at the clinic in Melbourne. Antiabortion groups had featured them on wanted posters similar to those that Gunn had appeared on before his death. Clinics elsewhere are finding themselves compelled to take expensive precautions against attack. The Houston chapter of Planned Parenthood is spending $100,000 on security devices for its new headquarters. Last week their clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, hired an armed guard...
...While parenthood may seem distant to many Harvard undergraduates, it is never too soon to start thinking about the timing and management of having babies. We need to explode the myth that biology is destiny and to stop the demonization of career primary people. To those individuals who can successfully balance the competing demands of career and family, my sincere admiration. But those of us who have made, or intend to make, alternative choices should not be forced to assume a defensive posture...