Word: pregnant
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Grave Necessity. New York City's nonsectarian hospitals almost unanimously reported that they would continue to perform abortions for women up to 20 weeks pregnant, or later if there is grave medical necessity, subject to the safeguards established by the state. At Washington's Freedmen's Hospital, Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, the reaction was the same. In Chicago, leading OBG services conceded that they would take more care to establish the length of gestation-but otherwise, no change. In California, where a 20-week law is in effect, there...
...lover, exalted on learning that he is also her lost twin. Nilsson never makes a meaningless gesture. She touched Siegmund almost at once-tentative, exploring-like an emotionally blinded woman. After the first act there are no more visions of a laughing house in springtime. Exhausted and pregnant...
...equate the inhumane killing of prenatal babies by elective abortions with the alleged "untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...
...transformations wrought by time-In the last scene of the first act, for example, George-recently plagued by an annoying case of impotence-sees in his annual trip to California a potential source of relief. Instead, he encounters only additional frustration in the person of an eight-months-pregnant Doris. This pattern of blighted expectations recurs in the opening scene of the second act; this time, George-now a stuff, Establishment type-exchanges verbal thrusts with Doris-metamorphosed into a Berkeley flower child. Refusing indignantly to sleep with a former Goldwater voter, Doris sniffs, "And all the time I though...
...less likely to take a chance on late-term abortions. The Boston decision is likely to please antiabortionists, who have been trying for nearly two years to overturn or circumvent the Supreme Court's decision. But it may well work untold hardship for thousands of unhappily pregnant women, who may now find that although late abortions are technically legal in most states, few doctors are willing to perform them...