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...very nature of the anti-choice movement is to eliminate abortion as an option, but it then does nothing to strengthen the other two ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. In fact, the Catholic Church, Harvard's own Alliance for Life and many other antiabortion zealots believe that sex education and the use of birth control are wrong and should not be encouraged. Their ultimate solution to unwanted pregnancies is that people should simply abstain from sex until they are ready to procreate. While this plan works theoretically, it is by no means in touch with societal reality...
...seen not only as a personal tragedy but also as a social crisis. Which may be why, suddenly, there seems to be so much attention being paid to preventing divorce. "We're seeing a trend in the past couple of years toward couples doing more work to preserve and strengthen relationships," says Froma Walsh, co-director of the Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago...
According to Ngai, Patten has proposed an expansion of Hong Kong's electorate in order to strengthen democracy in the colony before Communist rule...
Geary reports that plans to strengthen the dikes for just such an emergency have been gathering dust for 20 years. Grass-roots environmentalists protested that heightening the dikes would destroy the natural landscape, and politicians refused to pay for costlier alternatives...
...lines were evident again last week. Only a few days after France threatened to withdraw its 4,500 peacekeepers from Bosnia, French Defense Minister Francois Leotard argued for a more aggressive stance against the Bosnian Serbs. Military chiefs will gather in the Hague this week to devise ways to strengthen the U.N. presence -- even as their subordinates continue to draft plans for an evacuation...