Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first person to wonder about Reaganspeak aloud? Are we breaking new ground here? Nothing wrong with her message, but it would be refreshing if people stopped praising it as if it were prophetic, because it's not. It's just the product of a privileged Black woman who went to boarding school and Tufts University and now wants to draw on her long-extirpated underclass roots...
Battered pro-choice groups, who kept a relatively low profile during the campaign, are now pulling out the stops for their own last-ditch, high- visibility crusade to safeguard the right to abortion. "We are determined that not one woman in America will die or be maimed from a back-alley abortion because George Bush was elected President of the U.S.," said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. NOW is planning a huge letter-writing campaign to petition the Justice Department and Supreme Court to retain Roe v. Wade, plus a protest at Bush's Inauguration. Together...
...With these children, you have to push a little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together...
...life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would die of AIDS by Christmas last year, but she has come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black woman, a matriarchal blend of sweetness and strength. "You have to say, 'Let's do patty-cake,' 'Let's sing,' 'Let's kiss on each other a little while.' Let's do all those mushy things that prolong the child's life...
...Directed Solicitor General Charles Fried to file a brief with the Supreme Court urging a reappraisal of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guarantees a woman's right to an abortion...