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...What to do with a problem like child care? An estimated 175,000 children are waiting for places around Australia, and demand keeps growing - three-quarters of a million children attended some form of care in 2004, 10,000 more than the year before. Pregnant women are urged to enrol their unborn offspring for a day-care place a year or two ahead of time - often paying a fee to join a waiting list - only to be told by apologetic center staff, "We'll let you know." And it's getting more and more expensive: the price of child care...
...what about cases of rape and incest, where there is overwhelming public support for allowing abortion as an option? Here the lawmakers admit that they carved out a little gray area. Hunt notes that the bill forbids doctors from prescribing any drug or doing any procedure on a pregnant woman ?with the specific intent? of ending a pregnancy. It also protects the right of women to use ? a contraceptive measure, drug or chemical, if it is administered prior to the time when a pregnancy could be determined through conventional medical testing...
...other words, a woman presenting herself to an emergency room immediately after a rape, Hunt says, would be able to use emergency contraception; the trick is that she has to do within the first few days after the assault, before any test can determine whether she was pregnant in the first place. The lawmakers concluded that it?s OK for a rape victim to have an abortion, so long as she doesn?t know for certain that she?s doing...
...suburban dream?is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders if her husband will send her flowers (on no special occasion), shoos the children...
...fetus is a “child” is unproductive. What our society needs is to understand the reasons why women feel they must need abortions and address those reasons by providing extensive education for all and enacting policies that provide financial support and social support for pregnant women and parents. We need to redirect the attention away from these rare but usually necessary procedures and onto issues impacting those who have already been born—for example, addressing the needs of 13 million children living in poverty. To do otherwise would truly be “morally...