Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging the bod ies of the less fortunate refugees out of the surf. The toll: 33 dead, including two pregnant women...
...were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in front of their relatives; another 200 were carried off to other fishing vessels. The attackers, many of them carriers of venereal diseases, often left the women infected as well as brutalized. Many victims became pregnant. A report to the relief agency CARE by a doctor who worked at the Songkhla camp vividly described an attack on one group of young women: "All they could sense at the time was the stark fear of being faced by naked, sweating, foul-smelling men; the look...
...obvious reason that so many women are giving birth out of wedlock is the steady decline of the social stigma against it. Girls are no longer thrown out of most high schools for getting pregnant, or packed off to a home for unwed mothers. Now whites, like blacks, are more likely to bear the child and refuse to put it up for adoption. In the late '60s and early '70s, about 71% of unwed white pregnant teen-agers and 26% of blacks married in haste before the birth of a child. By the late '70s, the number...
...call Fenwick a liberal Republican, a label she scorns. "What is liberal about that?" she asks in reference to her support of civil rights and legal aid for homosexuals and women seeking abortions. "When you really think about it, these are actually conservative positions. I'm neither homosexual nor pregnant, but the Constitution guarantees everyone--no matter who or what he is--equal rights. I'm just sticking to the Constitution...
...told the senators, however, that the proposed amendment would place an unfair burden on pregnant women "to dedicate their bodies, their futures and sometimes their very lives to the survival of the unborn...