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...this November, and if the Supreme Court keeps tilting toward the political starboard, it's possible (I don't want to say conceivable) that Roe v. Wade will be overturned and abortion made illegal in many states. The operation would again be entrusted to shady entrepreneurs and the desperate pregnant women themselves. Those who look forward to making abortion illegal must consider the effects of that ruling; women will still do it, but at a much higher risk of injury and trauma...
...appeasing the apparatchiks. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabi is despondent for a reason: she's pregnant and is about to try to get, with Otilia's help, an abortion - illegal at the time in Romania...
...That Jhuma is blamed for the crime enacted on her is no surprise. Nor should it shock that, in the patriarchal world Chettri describes, Jhuma blames herself. "Her heart was heavy, and it burned with remorse," writes Chettri. Soon after she discovers that she's pregnant and that the soldier has fled, Jhuma prepares to kill herself. What might jolt a contemporary reader, though, is her feudal salvation: just as she's about to jump off a cliff, Jhuma is saved by a fat old goatherd who has secretly loved her and promises to care for her forever. She relents...
...recent years, the last word on the dangers of eating mercury-rich fish seemed to be the government's well-publicized 2004 advisory, which recommended against eating too much higher mercury fish like white tuna, but whose warning applied only to pregnant or nursing women, women of childbearing age and young children. Though mercury overload could damage the still-developing nervous system of a baby, the scientific consensus was that for the average Joe taking in the average amount of fish, heavy with metals or not, it posed no undue threat...
...commonly eaten fish, if there is any level of mercury where, for an adult [excluding women who are or may become pregnant], the potential risk will be greater than the potential benefit of omega-3s, I haven't seen any study that shows that.... If there is a theoretical limit at which potential harm from mercury might exceed omega-3s, it's probably far higher than what we're seeing now. The idea that you're going to eat a fish meal as an adult and that it's going to give you net cardiovascular harm is just not supported...