Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PREGNANT," said...
...That's absurd," thought he, "nobody but nobody gets pregnant anymore...
...said to him, "When a woman finds out she is pregnant, she should be happy, and I can't afford...
...response to a question, she acknowledged difficulty in defining the term "voluntarily." "The reality changes immediately when the person becomes pregnant," she said...
Makoto Ikeue was 20 when he wrote that poem. Shortly afterward, he killed himself in the lovers' lane where he had often met the girl he made pregnant. Before Ikeue's suicide, the girl had an abortion because her family refused to let her marry him. Why? Because Ikeue was a buraku-min, one of some 3,000,000 "hamlet people," a caste-like group whose members have suffered economic and social discrimination for 15 generations in Japan...