Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Reagan Administration's ruling would make abortions readily available to women rich enough to travel to "legal" states, but it would send poor women back to untrained doctors and illegal, life-threatening drugs. And for the women who don't want to risk their lives to end their pregnancies...
The most hypocritical part of the Administration's move and other "pro-family" legislation like the Hatch Amendment--which would ban abortion--is that the very same people who condemn abortion have come out against sex education in schools, contraceptive counseling, and other methods that would cut down on the...
Pedro had the rough, callused hands of a seasoned laborer, Stammer remembered, but he was also a person of some refinement. He enjoyed having her play the piano for him, and he liked reading books on history and philosophy, metaphysics and chemistry. Among his favorites was The Decline of the...
It is impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch...
Pakaluk misses and distorts the point that pregnancy involves not only fetuses but real live women, and that it is a personal and complicated matter for these women. He equates the desire for legal abortion with hedonistic "sexual freedom," apparently never having heard of the fact that all types of...