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...antiabortion site (www.christiangallery.com/atrocity) that lists the names of abortion providers around the country and asks for help in gathering information about them. In some cases the site displays photos and other identifiers, such as addresses and phone numbers, as well as names and birthdates of family members. Planned Parenthood and five doctors accuse the site of being a not-so-thinly-veiled hit list that should be shut down. The web site maintains it is engaging in free speech protected by the First Amendment. "This will be a tough case to resolve, and Planned Parenthood faces an uphill battle...
...protects most types of speech. And people are clearly allowed to talk about doctors." At the same time the courts do recognize limits to free speech. "Defendants cross the line when it can be shown that their speech encourages, incites and facilitates violence," says Cohen. "So the more Planned Parenthood can show the site is designed to encourage acts of violence against doctors, the more likely it is the group can prevail." But that is a high evidentiary burden to meet, particularly in a legal system that gives strong preference to the free dissemination of information. Whichever way this case...
...section, students are asked to relate the themes of the readings to their own lives. Discussions frequently lead to stories about personal experiences with love, parenthood and other issues...
Baby boomers and Gen Xers may have taken over parenthood, but their own parents are also living longer and thus extending the family as well. By the year 2005 there will be an estimated 80 million to 90 million grandparents in the U.S. Only those codgers won't be sitting in rocking chairs, talking about the old days. Boomer grandparents are likely to be "younger, healthier, wealthier and better educated," say Kathryn and Allan Zullo, the husband-wife authors of The Nanas and the Papas: A Boomers' Guide to Grandparenting (Andrews McMeel). The Zullos give grandparents advice about keeping...
...Depo-Provera works, and for many communities plagued by teen pregnancies, that's what counts. Says Steve Trombley, president of Planned Parenthood in Chicago: "The word is out in the community about the three-month shot." With nobody wanting to return to the soaring teen-pregnancy rate of old, that word is likely to remain out--at least until even more kids remember the option of simply saying...