Word: sherris
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...article on Sherri Finkbine and her desire for a legal abortion [TIME, Aug. 3] appears to be written very objectively, to my great amazement. Could it be possible that TIME condones her desire for an abortion...
Nuts to your biased approach to the Sherri Finkbine case. As mother of none, may I present another angle? I would be only too glad to be given a fifty-fifty chance to bear a normal child. I would gratefully accept a deformed child...
Such laxness can lead to trouble. Many newspapers followed Sherri Finkbine's quest for an abortion with sickening thoroughness. The Monroe suicide, admittedly front-page news, was ballooned to ludicrous proportions: 436 column inches in a single issue of the New York Daily News, 500 the same day in the New York Post-and 799 in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In the cool of autumn, the papers might have had better sense...
Pills bought in Europe by her husband alarmed the Arizona housewife whose daily misgivings made headlines across the U.S. last week. A Phoenix judge dismissed Mrs. Sherri Finkbine's plea that the Arizona law permit an abortion in her case. Resolved to have an abortion, she prepared to go overseas...
...Says Sherri Finkbine: "It would be the cruelest thing in the world to let my baby be born with only a 50-50 chance of being normal. And I am concerned about our other children. How would it affect them? Some people think that what I want to do is wrong. If it would make them happy, we would be glad to start again next month and try to have a normal baby...