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Antiabortion group loses big-bucks suit to Planned Parenthood...
...Senate approved, 69 to 30, a bill that makes it a federal crime to attack or blockade abortion clinics. The vote came in the wake of a Houston jury award of more than $1 million in punitive damages to a Planned Parenthood clinic that claimed its business had been disrupted by Operation Rescue and Rescue America. The organizations are appealing the decision...
...Planned Parenthood of Leadville, Colorado, pays teenage girls $1 for each day they avoid getting pregnant. The girls, who show up at a school office every week to attest that they are not expecting a child and that if they have had sex, they used contraceptives, often stick around to eat Doritos and talk with counselors about their lives...
Carousel sentimentalizes the redemptive power of parenthood for Billy, a pettish, self-pitying idler and punk whom Hayden plays with an early-Brando sneer. Becoming a father may not make an abusive husband saintly; it often just gives him a new victim to pummel. A compelling actor, Hayden is not enough of a singer -- he loses his way rhythmically and sounds faint in the score's one modernist number, the anthemic Soliloquy ("my boy Bill"), which ends the first act. Sally Murphy is too bland to evoke sympathy as Billy's doormat of a wife...
Burnett said she is a member of the nationalAbortion Rights Action League and a pastcontributor to Planned Parenthood...