Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have gathered together 22 vivid tape-recorded interviews from people of different ages and backgrounds-but with similar complaints. "I never thought marriage involved sexual relations," confessed a 42-year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted the fact that she was frigid "the way others have a crooked nose or are missing...
...inhabitants, sleepy and frightened, refused to comply with the demand. But a forester named Joseph Cohen, 48, opened his door?and was immediately cut down by automatic-weapons fire. His son Eliahu, 4, was also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...
...supplied them with fetal tissue, with the unauthorized use of a body. The investigators also came upon the records of Edelin, one of only two doctors at B.C.H. willing to perform abortions. In October 1973, Edelin used a saline injection to abort a woman believed to be 20 weeks pregnant. When the procedure failed to end the pregnancy, he performed a hysterotomy, a form of caesarean section, delivering a fetus that pathologists estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks old. Despite Edelin's insistence that the fetus was dead on delivery, the D.A. charged the doctor with manslaughter...
Changing Habits. The only jarring note in Mahmud's success story is that he now has eleven children and his wife is pregnant once more. Egyptian leaders are fighting to limit families. In doing so, they must dispel a traditional Arab conviction that many sons must be born for a family to prosper, because so many die of childhood diseases. Thanks to a growing system of state-run clinics in rural areas, the high fatality rate is declining. With support from more progressive Islamic leaders, the government has set up birth control clinics, where a month's supply...
...supporting players, most of them Claudine's kids, are slightly less selfconscious, but they too are types of the most banal sort: the eldest boy flirting with the black revolutionary movement, the eldest girl suddenly getting pregnant at age 15. And so on. But then what can you expect of a movie about blacks in which the main love scene is preceded by a meal of fried chicken? Thank heavens they did not have watermelon for dessert, but that is about the only cliché of black life the film has avoided. Richard Schickel