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...told him I understood his position but had to disagree with it. I explained my belief that few women made the decision to terminate a pregnancy casually; that any pregnant woman felt the full force of the moral issues involved and wrestled with her conscience when making that decision; that I feared a ban on abortion would force women to seek unsafe abortions, as they had once done in this country. I suggested that perhaps we could agree on ways to reduce the number of women who felt the need to have abortions in the first place...
Talk about method acting. Just three months after wrapping her role as the pregnant unwed teenage Virgin Mary in Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip...
...think a girl could be left alone after 500 years, but if anything, the scrutiny of the Mona Lisa is more intense than ever. After studying the painting with 3-D laser scanners, researchers posited last week that Leonardo da Vinci's subject was pregnant, lending scientific cred to an old theory. "People have said there is an enigma to the Mona Lisa," says historian Donald Sassoon, author of Becoming Mona Lisa. "That makes it popular because people like enigmas and secret codes." True enough. Here are some puzzles scientists and writers think they've solved in just the past...
...existing scheme that paid mothers to ensure their kids stay in school. The Bolsa Familia gives households earning up to $56 a month per head a monthly allowance of between $7 and $43. Families earning up to $27 are entitled to $21 more depending on the number of children, pregnant females or young mothers. To qualify, kids between the ages of 6 and 15 must attend at least 85% of classes and they must have all the vaccinations and pre-natal care on offer...
When my girlfriends in the U.S. got pregnant and began picking baby names, we discussed whether French names were too pretentious, Indian ones too trendy, and whether originality mattered more than pronounceability. In Tehran, such conversations all lead back to one central question: is the name you like on the banned baby name list? I didn't even know such a list existed until two months into my pregnancy, when I began throwing out suggestions like Priya and Lara, and my husband laughed...