Word: pregnant
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...gold, is a dream that extends far beyond the visible horizon. Women are wary of Jackson's antiabortion views. He frequently tells the story of how his unwed teen-age mother, on the advice of her doctor, almost had an abortion when she was pregnant with him and was only dissuaded by her minister. Jackson has begun stressing that although he is morally opposed to abortion, he believes that the law should allow a woman free choice. Nevertheless, women have not yet rallied to his cause. Neither has labor. The AFL-CIO decided last week to make its endorsement earlier...
...accentuates the flaws in each person's character, prompting old bonds to be severed and new ones to be cemented. At first glimpse, we think that young Tiao will be the hero of the plot; young, eager, hardworking, he makes plans to marry his girlfriend whom he has made pregnant. But his downfall comes when he cannot see the pitfalls of not participating in the impending strike. Instead, he selfishly goes against his father Otavio and walks the picket line of his striking colleagues...
...above all we are left with an ambiguous ending with little if anything being resolved, the strike is still on. Maira is still pregnant, and the love binding the characters is still strong despite the shocking realization that united action and families' ties are not enough to overcome the wretched people wearing black ties. We don't pity the people but we do hate the invisible system that prevents them from rising...
Women do not need the Supreme Court to support their right to choose to have an abortion. Rather, women need to decide beforehand whether to avoid pregnancy or to accept it, should pregnancy occur. By the time a woman is pregnant, she has already made her choice. Though women are the bearers of life, they are not the creators of life, and therefore have no fundamental right to destroy the life they carry in their body...
Before settling the case and putting Chaldea in the rear-view mirror once more, the doughty private investigator rediscovers an old love, uncovers some long-suppressed secrets, and puts Billy's pregnant lady on the road to social security. Things occur without apparent order but with the haphazard blur of ripening crops and turning leaves, as Midwest-raised Author Stephen Greenleaf knows they should. As for Investigator Tanner, in his fourth fictional appearance, he is once again the small-town boy making good, and better, and better...