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Consider, for example, the case of a 22-year-old unmarried woman we will call Lisa, who missed her period last November. Lisa, who was managing a restaurant, decided to have an abortion. Her timing could have been better. Just the month before, Springfield's only abortion provider, which had been operating five days a week just 15 minutes from her home, closed its doors. "The environment here in Missouri is so hostile," its administrator told the local paper. With four abortion doctors left in the state, compared with 10 as recently as 1996, Lisa's closest alternative turned...
...abortion without a parent's consent and that require doctors who perform abortions to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic. Generally, only local doctors can get those, and abortion providers often do not live close to where they work. That was largely why the Springfield clinic closed. The Missouri legislature is back in session this month, and abortion-rights foes have another list of bills they hope to pass, including one that would protect pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills from lawsuits and employer sanctions, give tax credits to centers that...
DIED. VINCENT (CHIN) GIGANTE, 77, Mafia boss who feigned mental illness for decades to avoid jail; in prison in Springfield, Mo., on Dec. 19. The empire of the pompadoured head of New York's Genovese crime family once ranged from Little Italy's street fairs to Miami's shipping docks. The "Oddfather" sometimes wandered about Greenwich Village in a tattered bathrobe muttering incoherently, and was once discovered naked in the shower with an umbrella by federal agents delivering a subpoena. The ex-boxer was convicted in 1997 on racketeering charges. He later admitted his deception...
...DIED. VINCENT (CHIN) GIGANTE, 77, Mafia boss who feigned mental illness for decades to avoid jail; in prison in Springfield, Missouri, on Dec. 19. The empire of the pompadoured head of New York's Genovese crime family once ranged from Little Italy's street fairs to Miami's shipping docks. The "Oddfather" sometimes wandered about Greenwich Village in a tattered bathrobe muttering incoherently, and was once discovered naked in the shower holding an umbrella by federal agents delivering a subpoena. The ex-boxer was convicted in 1997 on racketeering charges. He later admitted his deception...
...IMPORTANT CALLIf Fitzpatrick does indeed build on his success of last week and embark on a prosperous career with the St. Louis Rams, the folks of St. Louis just might owe Murphy a little bit more thanks than they originally thought.Murphy, who played his college football at Springfield College, called fellow Springfield alum and current Rams quarterback coach, John Ramsdell, in the spring of 2004. “I called John after Fitzpatrick’s junior year and I said ‘Trust me on this, we have a special player at quarterback. The guy?...