Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court brushed aside claims that providing funds through Medicaid for childbirth but not abortion violates both the equal-protection clause of the Constitution and a woman's right to make her choice unhindered by Government. The Justices conceded that "the state may have made childbirth a more attractive alternative, thereby influencing the woman's decision," but nonetheless ruled that it did not really eliminate her free choice, since privately funded abortions still were possible-even though the woman might find it impossible to afford...
...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 is therefore murder; pro-abortionists believe that terminating an unwanted pregnancy is a personal decision that should be left to the conscience of the woman rather than be made unlawful. Paying far more attention to preventing undesired pregnancies is one measure on which the contending sides may agree-but no contraceptive has yet won wide enough acceptance to ensure that kind of solution...
...from Fort Wayne to Nashville without stopping!" he thunders into a microphone. "Don't nobody think I can't play all night if I want to!" As the crowd cheers, the big man leans forward and madly strums the opening riffs to Orange Blossom Special. Says a woman in the second row: "I just love it when Bill gets to roaring like that...
...this same Fowler was also a devoted family man who remained married to the same patient and adoring woman all his life and who raised a family that cherished him. When a friend judged his biography of a notorious Denver madam too indelicate, Fowler retrieved the manuscript from an astonished publisher and burned it. When he died in 1960, a convert to Roman Catholicism, Fowler was the friend of countless priests and prelates...
...four men were herded into the dingy, second-floor courtroom of Milan's Palace of Justice-handcuffed in pairs and bound together by a dull iron chain. The lone woman defendant walked by herself under the guard of heavily armed carabinieri. Six jurors, headed by a middle-aged woman wearing a shiny new sash in the national colors of red, white and green, nervously took their oaths. Over the shouted objections of the defendants, the presiding magistrate appointed defense attorneys and the trial got under...