Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poetry has a way of molding people. There's a buried beauty--(suddenly) Gray's 'Elegy' changed my life. Who knows who's buried, who could have been what." The poet is English, but the words animate Terkel's theme: "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid/Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire." The dream that one nation can kindle the celestial fire dormant in any person is Terkel's American Dream. And for this woman, Studs Terkel, and the reader of his new book, the Dream survives...
Thirty years ago, a U.S. Senator rose in the chamber to denounce the "illicit affair" between a "popular but pregnant Hollywood movie queen" and a "love pirate." The pirate was the brilliant Italian director Roberto Rossellini (Open City, Paisan). The gravid queen was, of course, Ingrid Bergman, who had arrived in Hollywood from Sweden in 1939, a hefty 5 ft. 8 in. of raw material crying out for diet, plucked eyebrows and capped teeth...
...success of proper medical care in preventing desperate acts by panicked women. But while Massachusetts should be commended for being a frontrunner in the drive to provide quality care for abortion patients, its recent legislation belies the spirit of legalization and threatens to increase the death rate for pregnant women...
...have questions about abortion. They also support the second part of the law, which requires minors to obtain the consent of both parents or a judge before undergoing an abortion. The purpose of the legislation, as Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone worded it, is to insure that a pregnant woman has "a full appreciation of the consequences and significance of her decision...
...assume that women carelessly opt for abortion is both patronizing and paternalistic. The state should stay neutral in the moral debate between right-to-lifers and proabortionists--it would be equally wrong in insisting that all pregnant women read a statement outlining the difficulties of motherhood. Moreover, the law's lukewarm attempt at preventing abortions will not deter those intent on having them; the only effect will be to drive women--especially minors--away from reputable clinics...