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...tell a story. But in Baby with the Bath Water, at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, he wobbles toward a narrative. The play follows Daisy (impersonated first by a girl doll, then by a hairy young man) from terrifying infancy, mute childhood and promiscuous adolescence to touchingly optimistic parenthood...
...Factory" [Feb. 14], it should be noted that in the 15th century four out of five babies died before the age of two. Abortion was unthinkable. In the 20th century, human life is cheap. The problem in the case of Baby Doe does not arise from surrogate parenthood or test-tube pregnancies. It is that the achievements of medical science have given us an attitude of "If not this baby, then another." There are simply too many humans to care about one life...
...called the Government's arguments defending the rule "fatuous" and "mere sophistry." He asserted that the proposed regulation "contradicts and subverts the intent of Congress," which was to provide funds to combat "the problems of teen-age pregnancy." And in a similar case initiated in Washington by Planned Parenthood, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Flannery said, "It is abundantly clear . . . that many teen-agers will be deterred from attending these clinics as a result of the parental-notification requirement...
Groups that opposed the rule were delighted by the temporary injunctions. "We have always been confident the regulation would not go into effect," said Jeffrey Lubitz, spokesman for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. "It was totally contrary to the ideals of the family-planning program established by Congress." Foes of the rule have consistently maintained that parental notification would cause many teen-agers to boycott family-planning clinics but not abstain from sex. "The only effect the rule would have would be to keep kids from using reliable methods of birth control," said Peter Brownlie, executive director of Planned...
...clever, new testaments to American know-how. Pregnant women often joke gently about their offspring "in the oven," but in a joke-less context, where the baby in question is being cooked up on consignment, there is cause for real worry. With all the potential joys of scientifically created parenthood, the last thing one wishes to encourage is the impersonal approach. What is being cooked up in each instance is not a cake or a car or a mail-order watch. It is a person, small-headed or not, and any situation that suggests otherwise is not just dismaying...