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...Only seven states even consider her health or safety. Actually, most hospital abortions are performed for admittedly illegal reasons, notably mental illness and German measles (25% of the 1964 total). Unfortunately, fear of the consequences creates vast inequities. To fend off prosecution, special hospital boards often use quotas and render questionable moral judgments...
Even with Trodden's cooperation the earliest the courts could render a decision would be mid-October. If the decision is favorable, the resolution still would face a tangle of administrative procedures before it can go on the ballot...
...intensely loyal readers, many of whom are all but illiterate and most of whom read nothing else, the Courier has developed a peculiar journalese that wavers between first-grade primer and Time magazine style. Efforts to render complex political shenanigans comprehensible lead to headlines like "Who's Doing What to Whom in Phenix City?" An interview with a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor last year contained this passage: "He sprinkled the crackers into his soup. Not too many crackers, and not too few. It was a middle-of-the-road sort of sprinkle...
...when he writes in an adaptation of Juvenal, "What do you hope from your white pubic hairs," it is not just another attempt to render Latin into English verse, but to say something sharp and contemporary about how the current U.S. cult of youth and happiness, through sex, bears down heavily on older...
...seasoned Napoleonic veterans. Andrew Jackson paid them a glowing tribute: "To the Men of Color -Soldiers! I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you; for I was not uninformed of those qualities which must render you so formidable. I knew you could endure hunger and thirst; I knew that you loved the land of your nativity. But you surpass my hopes. Soldiers...