Word: v
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...rough side, who got scholarshipped to Harvard, came back to Minnesota to practice law and landed on the Supreme Court at 61, an age when a man thinks about cutting back. He was a conservative who defended civil liberties and championed the poor and oppressed and authored Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal, for which he received reams of hate mail, much of which he read. He was a man possessed of integrity and kindness. Every day after lunch, JUSTICE HARRY BLACKMUN took a walk to clear his head. He went out alone, in his navy blue cardigan frayed...
...culture, we venerate symmetrical faces, women with perky breasts, men with V-shaped torsos. But is it the fault of Vogue editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...
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...Chicago, some were lucky enough to have Jane, an abortion service network where women safely performed abortions for years before the passage of Roe v. Wade, despite the fact that they had no formal training. This underground clinic suffered from vice raids by the police, but they were never bombed, and none of the providers spent significant time in prison. Doctors then risked losing their licenses for performing abortion--now they risk losing their lives...
Will it take a complete reversal of Roe v. Wade to convince Americans that abortion rights are seriously jeopardized? The advent of RU-486, the "abortion pill" may eventually make abortions more accessible to women whether or not they live near to a doctor who performs abortions. However, RU-486's entrance onto the United States market has been postponed indefinitely...