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...March 20, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights criticized Poland for having no effective legal framework for pregnant women to assert their right to abortion on medical grounds. It awarded 36-year old Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that...
...year-old pensioner present at an anti-abortion rally, called the Tysiac case "a shame for Polish mothers." "A mother should protect her children, not to kill them," Sobota says. "There was no respect for life under communism," said Sobota, a mother of three. "Each time I was pregnant, the first words I heard from a doctor were: 'Pregnancy. Are we terminating?' We can't continue like that...
...never crosses into caricature. His approach gives Piero's portraiture a strikingly modern aspect. "It is almost hyper-realism," Bertelli says. "The faces are gigantic compared to the background landscape, making them monumental." The same attention to character is evident in his frescoes. La Madonna del Parto (The Pregnant Madonna) in Monterchi and La Maddelena (Mary Magdalene) in Arezzo's cathedral feature a similar female face, which is both angelic and a touch uneasy. Bertelli says the artist is able to capture the fleeting emotion of his subjects: "It's almost as if the person was obligated for some mysterious...
When the U.S. invaded Iraq four years ago, Yasser Obaid Hussein's life was full of peril - but his mind was filled with hope. Night after night, his modest Baghdad apartment was shaken by the U.S. "shock and awe" bombing campaign. His pregnant wife Sheherezad was worried that a cruise missile might crash through the window. To calm her and their three children, Yasser tried to stay positive. "If we survive the bombs," he recalls saying, "we will have a wonderful new life...
...soccer team and coached its youth squads; learned to read and write, and improved their French; participated in town activities and festivals, and hosted and accepted dinner invitations with fellow Montfortais. Deportee Sidy Coulibaly had lived with a young local woman for three years, and who is five months pregnant with his first child...