Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They presented Journal editors with plans for an issue of the magazine they wanted turned over to them. The cover showed an obviously pregnant woman carrying a sign reading UNPAID LABOR; the suggested articles included "How to Get an Abortion," "Must Your Child Keep You from a Career?" "Prostitution and the Law." The Journal had been chosen for attack, said a liberated spokeswoman, "because for six months we had suggested they do an article on women's liberation," and because the magazine depicts women as "totally passive, ever-suffering second-class citizens...
...bomber (Van Heflin) on board, who is threatening to blow up the plane to give his wife (Maureen Stapleton) all the insurance money. Such churlish behavior endangers the crew of what must be the world's largest flying soap opera, including Captain Dean Martin and his pregnant girlfriend, Stewardess Jacqueline Bisset; Co-Captain Barry Nelson, home-loving father of seven; and cute little old Helen Hayes, who keeps stowing away aboard all kinds of flights...
...Pregnant Brides. Guttmacher insisted that his intention was not to whitewash the Pill but "to place this matter in proper perspective." The Pill, he declared, is "a prophylaxis against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses-unwanted pregnancy." Experts estimate, he said, that from 200,000 to 1,000,000 abortions are performed in the U.S. each year, with a death rate of 100 per 100,000 illegal abortions performed by non-medical operators. At least one out of six U.S. brides is pregnant when married, and among teen-age brides, one out of two. No fewer than 300,000 illegitimate...
...said Guttmacher, there are 1.5 clotting deaths per 100,000 women per year, compared with 22.8 who die as "a consequence of pregnancy"-a ratio of one to 15. Among older women, the ratio is almost the same. Granted, said Guttmacher, not all women who quit the Pill become pregnant, because other contraceptive methods are available. But with them the risk of unwanted pregnancy is far greater: the failure rate is two to four times as high with the IUD (intrauterine device), and ten to 30 times as high with the diaphragm...
...woman who happens to get pregnant, in the absence of decent abortion laws, or adequate child care facilities, she is faced with two possibilities: raising the child herself and working at the same time, or turning to dependency...