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With all male actors, two of whom play difficult female roles that involve sex and rape, the level of professionalism and effectiveness of the acting is most memorable. As Titus, Robert Walsh does an incredible job of portraying the physical and emotional collapse that his character experiences as his family gradually falls apart throughout the play. With a character that could easily be played over the top, Walsh allows the tragedy of the story to convey his internal destruction...
...country. Available freely under communism, abortion was often the only means of birth control. In the early 1990s, a right-wing government introduced one of the toughest abortion laws in Europe, allowing abortion only when the pregnancy poses a threat to a woman's life or health, results from rape or when the fetus is irreparably damaged. "It's paradoxical that under communism women had a choice and now under democracy, they don't," said Barbara Kowalik, a 38-year-old academic. "Now we have a tyranny of only one worldview...
...League, supported by the powerful ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja, is campaigning for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all cases, including rape and incest. The ruling Law and Justice party has agreed to change the constitution to include a phrase that says that life is protected "since conception" to strengthen the anti-abortion laws but wants to keep the current exceptions that make the procedure legal. The opposition is split: with the left against the constitional change and the center-right uncertain of what position to support. A vote is planned for mid-April...
...Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution of emergency "morning-after" contraception pills at government-run hospitals. In a nation where three-fourths of the public say they oppose liberalizing the abortion law - which, like Nicaragua's, bars abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger - women's rights groups concede Bachelet's contraceptive tack was the most legally and politically feasible...
...Elsewhere, the Uruguayan National Congress is now debating a Reproductive Health Law that would also allow abortion on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (it now permits the procedure in cases of rape or in order to save the mother's life). A similar bill was narrowly defeated in 2004 - but it may face another tough round this year because, ironically, Uruguay's leftist President, Tabare Vasquez, a physician, opposes abortion rights...