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Brenda (whose last name is withheld to protect her clients' privacy), 42, has wet-nursed 10 babies in the past seven years partly to help send her own two kids to college. She has mulled over the social implications of her work--because she's black and eight of the families she has worked for are white. "A friend asked me, Don't you feel like you're the mammy?" she recalls. But she finds her job fulfilling, and sometimes amusing. "If you're someplace with the family and the baby starts to pull at your blouse...
...Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning so-called partial-birth abortion in a 5-to-4 decision, which is a big win for abortion opponents: the law need not allow the procedure even when necessary to protect a woman's health. But the decision could have been worse for supporters of abortion rights. The court said a woman could still challenge the law by showing that she would get sick without the procedure. And while Justice Clarence Thomas, with Antonin Scalia, wrote separately that the right to abortion shouldn't exist, the court's two new Bush-appointed members...
...recent history to its early roots. President Bush’s pro-force policies can be traced back to Thomas Jefferson, who in 1790 recommended that the United States go to war with the Barbary pirates, and Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who dispatched Marines to protect Americans living in Beirut, which was war-torn even at the turn of the 20th century. Bush’s support of American businesses in the region even calls to mind the value Andrew Jackson placed on Middle Eastern trade...
...threat to himself or others, and schools can - and do - get sued for discriminating against the disabled. But parents of students who committed suicide have also wrangled settlements out of colleges for not doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when the red flags - at least in hindsight - seem clear. At large campuses like Virginia Tech's, which has 26,000 students, there can be hundreds who are in psychological distress or long-term counseling. Says Kevin Kruger, associate executive director of a national association of student-affairs...
...opinion's suggestion that there's another way to challenge the ban: in a case where a specific woman would probably get sick if she didn't undergo an intact D&E. In this so-called "as applied" challenge, the court could see when the procedure was necessary to protect a woman's health and rule the law unconstitutional in those situations. (As the dissent points out, there may be logistical problems with how this would work in practice). It wouldn't be a total victory for abortion rights, but it would be better than nothing...