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...Operation Rescue, an organization that seeks to shut down abortion clinics through picketing and harassment of patients and staff. Some 10,000 Rescue activists have been arrested in the past year. Last week Rescue struck again in St. Paul, with 200 protesters blocking the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic. Ultimately, Rescue and several other groups intend to press not only for a Roe reversal but also for a "human life" amendment to the Constitution...
Nonsense, says Dr. Annie Bureau, a French birth-control expert: "This product constitutes both scientific progress and an advantage for women." Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, who deplored Roussel's decision to drop RU 486 as "a tragic display of cowardice," called the company's about-face "the right decision for the women of France and, indeed, for women all over the world...
...gentle correction, claims that Coleridge said the three great plots were Oedipus Rex, Tom Jones and Volpone. Sure enough, the play turns out to be, like Oedipus, a struggle between father and son; the play within a play hinges, like Tom Jones, on questions of hidden parenthood; and the father, like Volpone, proclaims his forthcoming death to see what favors can be extracted in the hope of inheritance...
...today what you can do tomorrow" has long been the motto of many baby boomers. Until, that is, the biological clock began its inexorable countdown. Today even some of the most committed postponers of parenthood are finally deciding to have children, producing a record crop of late-in-life babies. The number of women 35 or over who are giving birth for the first time has quadrupled in the past decade, and is expected to increase further in the next few years. Sure, there are advantages to starting a family in your late 30s and early 40s. But what about...
...sits with Dana a short distance away. That night she'll drive the kids two hours north for a planned three-day holiday weekend; Dylan will be dropped off in Kennebunk, Me., to spend time with his father. A different parent will bring all three children back to Belmont. Parenthood in the late 20th century: love and logistics and chagrin...