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BACK IN 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled that women had the right to decide for themselves whether or not to carry a pregnancy to its full term, a lot of people were relieved. No more deaths from illegal abortions, no more unwanted children in families that couldn't give...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Abortion Decision: Justice With Blinders | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

While the ruling may be sound on legal grounds, in practical and moral terms it is an utter disaster. Medicaid funds have paid for about 300,000 abortions since the 1973 ruling; without those operations, there would now be 300,000 unwanted chldren growing up in poor families that would...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: The Abortion Decision: Justice With Blinders | 7/12/1977 | See Source »

Elesina Dart is the dark lady. Well-born, though only moderately wealthy, Elesina is a twice-divorced, hard-drinking rebellious actress in her early '30s when she meets social climber Ivy Trask. Ivy is a homely fashion editor whose shrewdness and harshness eventually garner her more than grace and beauty...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Poor Little Rich Folks | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

Presidential Support. But the "representatives of the people" are just as hesitant to grapple with the issue, one that matches militant right-to-lifers against dedicated pro-abortionists. There is no practical way to compromise the issue. Antiabortionists feel that life begins at the moment of conception and that abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES: The Supreme Court Ignites A Fiery Abortion Debate | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

Possibly, as Ingelfinger suggests, a public trial supervised by a collaboration of doctors and laymen might do more to bury Laetrile than all the official debunking. It would perhaps help repair the badly strained bond between medicine and the American people. Yet a too easy acquiescence by the FDA could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Freedom of Choice and Apricot Pits | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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