Word: parenthood
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...equates yesteryear's pro-contraception crusade with today's pro-abortion movement." Gee. Don't know where the movie makers got that one from. No antiabortion group these days would ever lump contraception and abortion together. Never. Given that Margaret Sanger, the first major birth-control activist, founded Planned Parenthood, the birth-control/abortion link seems like a fairly logical progression from either a conservative or liberal stance--especially considering that both used similar arguments about women's health, right to control their bodies, quality of life, etc. But it seems to me here that the Center is attempting...
...engage in a roller-coaster ride toward parenthood with unlikely friends Marty and Gail, already have three children and try to convince Samuel of the joys of parenting even as their kids run away, pretend they are Harlequin Romance heroines and generally torment everybody they come into contact with...
...lobbyists and nonprofit organizations have been charging that the Republicans are trying to "defund the left" by challenging the tax-exempt status of organizations that both receive tax subsidies and lobby Congress. Such reform might be thought to hit conservative groups like the N.R.A. just as hard as Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, but conservative groups actually tend to rely more on private donations and are not so dependent on government funds as liberal groups...
Obviously, any healthy society must deem financial support for children a moral obligation of parenthood. The point, which Gingrich so conveniently glides over, is that in a truly robust society this won't be the only such obligation; the current crisis of the family goes beyond dollars and cents. When journalists note pointedly that Timothy McVeigh was a child of divorce, they aren't suggesting that the attendant financial insecurity is what caused psychological problems...
...Opie Cunningham!" folks on the street still yell out when Howard walks by, combining the names of his TV alter egos. Since his days as a child actor, however, Howard has gone on to direct a string of high-concept but engagingly human Hollywood entertainments (Splash, Cocoon, Parenthood) while maintaining his sitcom reputation as the most likable kid on the block. Not that Howard's easygoing nature prevents him from firing unprofessional actors or screenwriters who can't deliver the goods. "He's tougher than all of us," Creative Artists Agency chief and Hollywood hardball player Michael Ovitz has said...