Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against 4000 other young actors. Before the filming of Pelle, he had never acted before and was chosen to audition based on a photograph sent to the producers of the movie. Interestingly enough, his mother named him for the lead character of Nexo's novel while she was still pregnant...
...Reagan's stiff-necked philosophic rigidity, Bush was eager to touch every point on the ideological spectrum. He honored, with lip service at least, most of his kinder and gentler campaign promises, ranging from a pledge to halt offshore drilling in California to advocacy of extended health care for pregnant women and children. Bush courted environmentalists (by pledging an end to acid rain and toxic dumping) and borrowed lines from Jesse Jackson ("Keep hope alive"), while still echoing themes from the Reagan years ("growth and opportunity" and "family and faith") and bowing at the shrine of a balanced-budget amendment...
...also true that not all women who choose to have sex are fully aware they can get pregnant. Often teenagers suffer from inadequate sex education and consequently are more likely to get pregnant without intending it. Such women should also be allowed to have abortions...
WHILE the above arguments are valid justifications for a pro-choice stand, the arguments that all women either don't know they can get pregnant even when using birth control or that all women are forced to have sex and get pregnant do not succeed...
Such women should be held responsible for their own actions and should not be allowed to have an abortion. They willingly take the risk of getting pregnant and should not be allowed to use abortion as birth control. The fetus' claims as a potential being should take precedence over the mother's, who shouldn't be allowed to make the fetus suffer when she willfully took the chance to become pregnant...