Word: stigmas
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...decade that the pill has been available in France, more and more women--now 29%--have chosen medical over surgical abortion, but the availability of the drug did not drive up the total number of abortions. On the other hand, surgical abortion in France does not carry the same stigma, the issue is not as divisive as in the U.S., and so the introduction of a medical alternative may have a greater impact here than abroad...
...comparable to the cost of a surgical abortion, the nation's largest insurance companies (including Aetna, Inc. and Cigna Corporation), have announced their intention to incorporate the pill as part of their standard coverage. Most significantly, these staunch supporters believe that RU-486 will help to erase the moral stigma associated with abortion in today's society. The pill privatizes the procedure by taking the intense focus of the debate off the highly-visible abortion clinics and dispersing it among hundreds of thousands of medical offices across the country. It grants both the doctors who choose to prescribe the pill...
This kind of attitude will hardly advance the pro-choice cause by removing the stigma of shame from having an abortion; it will merely hide the same old prejudices behind closed doors. If pro-choice advocates really want to make a difference in the national attitude about abortion, they will need to do much more than extol the virtues of a "wonder" drug. They will have to continue to present their arguments as to why having or performing an abortion is a morally acceptable decision to make...
...Paper or plastic. Gore didn't want to choose, each option carrying its own environmental stigma. "Paper, just because I like the paper," he said, after grimacing theatrically. But he had a third way of his own. "How about this - you just lump it up in your arms and take it like that...
...possibility of becoming "domesticated" drives Madonna to be so desperately ambitious, impossibly brilliant and acutely self-aware. Madonna knows the impact of her own revolutionary spirit--the world has become incredibly small to her, if you think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy British accent, bashes Britney Spears and the other teen pop stars even though her early music was just as packaged and diluted, complains about the "sucky" scripts being sent...