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This semantic sophistry dissatisfied many child-welfare professionals, yet they also saw that the opposite decision might be nearly as bad. Abortion rights advocates, such as Planned Parenthood, reluctantly supported the court's decision because defining the fetus as a person would make abortion murder by definition...
...didn't. She adopted Dylan, I didn't. But a month after she was there, I found myself bonding with her. She was just the greatest little girl. Suddenly I got tuned into the joys of parenthood. When Mia said it would be nice if she had someone else, I think I'll adopt another child, I said great. And coincidentally she got pregnant shortly after that. I was delighted...
...shame over not being able to support his child, the feeling of inadequacy and the strain on his relationship with the baby's mother. He resisted joining the ranks of young black fathers who cut out on their kids because they will not face the pressures of parenthood, but he could not see how to break the cycle -- until he learned from a friend about the Responsive Fathers Program at the Philadelphia Children's Network...
Last month, New York became ht 18th state to impose major restrictions on surrogate parenthood. Fearing that current surrogacy practices amounted to a baby-selling business, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo passed a law that prohibited the adoptive parents from paying the surrogate mother. The law also denied legal validity to the contract traditionally signed by both parties...
...overnight to charge the out-of-staters as much as $100 for the names of abortion doctors. As prices climbed as high as $1,000, abortion became a hustler's game. "There were doctors who were literally becoming millionaires," says Dr. Irving Rust, the medical director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx. "Anytime you have a situation where supply and demand is the main dynamic, it brings out the worst...