Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baby in the automatic swing for four hours on the high speed setting. Likewise, "reader quizzes" bypass classic teen quandaries of "Does He Like You?" for more mature, soul-searchers like the "Family Stress Test." The familiar, junior-friendly style of Parents magazine gently ushers readers from adolescence to parenthood...
...Parenthood did not come easily to Kevin and Kim Knussman. First there was a painful year of fertility treatments. Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak...
...boasted a handy checklist of "baby butchers" who were healthy (in black), as well as those who had been wounded (in gray) or killed (crossed out). It didn't quite make the case for pulling the trigger, but it pointed the way to sites that did. In 1995 Planned Parenthood and several targeted doctors sued the site's backers, charging that it illegally incited violence. Last week a Portland, Ore., jury agreed, handing the plaintiffs a $107 million verdict that the pro-choice movement hailed as a new weapon in the fight against those who oppose abortion with violence...
...Internet expression has limits, even though it's hard to regulate. As a medium for hate speech, the Net may be even more dangerous than print because it can put far-flung movement members in instantaneous contact. "The [Nuremberg] website takes it to even a higher level," says Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt. When Buffalo, N.Y., abortion doctor Barnett Slepian was killed last fall, she says, "his picture was crossed out within 15 minutes." But in the end, the Portland case used a single standard for its Internet defendants and those who threatened doctors with low-tech, Old West-style...
Companies that deal in tobacco, belch sulfur dioxide, support Planned Parenthood, finance risque movies...the verboten list will be endless. Consider how city pension funds and university trust funds are pulled in and out of politically (in)correct investments at the behest of pressure groups--and multiply that by a thousand...