Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This cotton-picker name of Red Vine from the Dirty Side was rolling a pregnant skate through Watergate town other day when he passed the home twenty of lady breaker First Mama. There was no city kitty so, mercysakes, Red hammered off, keyed his rig and called "Breaker one-niner for KUY-9532. "Negative copy. That foxy lady wasn 't hanging out, didn 't have her ears on. Good buddy told her anyway, "You truck 'em easy now, Apple Betty. Eighty-eights and ten, roger...
...wish that every woman who became pregnant became so by choice. But unfortunately this is not the case and is not likely to become so until our methods of birth control are dramatically improved in safety, efficacy, and ease...
...Harvard health insurance plan does not now cover nontherapeutic abortions; pregnant students must look elsewhere for funds for an operation whose costs must usually be paid in advance. Should the RUS fund run out, there would be nowhere in the University students could go for money to cover abortions--which must be performed as soon as possible if the operation is to proceed legally...
...major arguments against changing the University health plan are that pregnancy is not an illness, and that it would be unfair to ask those students opposed to abortion or physically unable to become pregnant to pay additional insurance premiums. But the principle of any insurance pool is that one contributes to coverage for accidents or illnesses to which one may not be susceptible. All the Ivy League schools except Princeton--which is considering changing its policy--and Harvard cover pregnancy insurance in their student health plans. A spokesman for Dartmouth, which will begin covering abortions next year, said last week...
...even those women opposed to abortion should accept the need for some insurance providing pregnancy benefits. It is their right, if they wish, to have children if they get pregnant; but it is not their right to force other students to go into debt because they need abortions. If a woman cannot find the $150 for an abortion, how can she hope to pay the $400 for delivery? No one would argue that abortion should be a form of contraception, but there are times when it is necessary--and it seems unlikely that there would be an increase in abortions...