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...that somebody needs to help these girls with their painful decision to give life," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan of Feminists for Life. Pro-choice forces are singing back. The lyric doesn't "show what it really means to be 15 and have a baby," says Joan Coombs of Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, the Material Girl has her own troubles these days. Her new movie, Shanghai Surprise, has derailed at the box office and rumors abound that her marriage to Co-Star Sean Penn is also off the tracks. Such uncharitable speculation is "not true," according to Madonna's p.r. agent...
Loss of the Copper-7 has upset many family-planning experts. "In the past, inferior products have been pulled off the market," notes Dr. Louise Tyrer of Planned Parenthood. "Now superior products are being abandoned because of high insurance costs." The IUD has a failure rate of only 5% in the first year of use, she points out, in contrast to 19% for the diaphragm, l7% to 24% for sponges, 18% for spermicidal foams and jellies and 10% for condoms. But, observes Dr. Bruce Stadel of the National Institutes of Health, "a pharmaceutical company would have to be altruistic...
With his new book a sure best seller, and a new record, "America' s Favorite Father" celebrates the foibles and frustrations of parenthood. Plus the oldest Playmate of the Year and the youngest reigning monarch, the kings of late- night television and the King of K, an Olympic gymnast who flexes her show- biz talent and a Soviet dissident who meets her onscreen mate...
Shortly before her daughter's confirmation last May, Mary Ann Sorrentino, executive director of Rhode Island Planned Parenthood, was told by her pastor not to participate. The reason: she had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. When Sorrentino, 42, questioned the action, she was reminded that two Planned Parenthood clinics performed abortions in the state and that canon law decrees automatic excommunication for receiving an abortion or helping another to receive one. News of the action came out only last week when a local cable-television program aired a segment on abortion. During the show, Sorrentino heard a priest...
Reacting to the news, Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton said in New York that Sorrentino's was the first case of an individual being excommunicated "simply because he or she works for Planned Parenthood." While Sorrentino's nine-year stewardship of the state group continues, she insists her religious faith remains unshaken. On "human-rights issues," she told a news conference, "many of us as Catholics consider ourselves in conflict" with the church...