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...here is what it is like on the inside. On the inside, this family feels whole. It feels as if it works. My single parenthood is probably like the experience of millions of others--we have kids, pets, homes, jobs and ex-spouses in our lives. When we say, "Hi, honey, I'm home," it is to the baby sitter, the neighbor or a relative who has come over to help with child care. We don't go out much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well...
...reproductive-health fair featuring displays like "The Politics of Choice," "Barriers to Abortion" and even "Herbal Abortifacients." The fair was part of a nine-week reproductive-health course where abortion is amply covered. Also, Stanford students can now opt to spend their ob-gyn rotation in a Planned Parenthood clinic, where they can observe abortions being performed...
...members in the U.S. and Canada, has made considerable headway. Since its creation in 1993, the group estimates that about 50, or a third of all medical schools, have introduced abortion or brought it back into their curriculums, either through mandatory coursework, elective classes, lectures or Planned Parenthood rotations. "They have made a tremendous difference," says Uta Landy, a curriculum consultant to med schools on reproduction issues...
...mandatory curriculum. At Brown, students urged professors to update their lectures by adding RU 486 and other abortion advancements as topics. The group at the University of Texas-Southwestern, where administrators were originally wary of even allowing a chapter, successfully pushed for a fourth-year elective at a Planned Parenthood clinic...
...courts are not doing very much to clarify the issue. Two years ago, a federal court in Portland, Ore., ruled the web site was not protected by the First Amendment, and ordered the site's organizers to pay $109 million in damages to Planned Parenthood and the four doctors who had sued the site for inciting violence. The site was taken down. Wednesday, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned that ruling...