Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was abortion, and the fight was supposed to have been settled in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy until the fetus is presumably capable of "meaningful life outside the mother's womb." But as the passionate cries in Fountain Square showed, the battle is far from over. The rally capped a convention in which the forces opposed to abortion spent most of four days planning strategy for next year's elections and state legislative sessions. In heaping...
...political and is waged by men and women who offer no quarter. It is a fierce clash of fundamental beliefs in which name calling is considered as potent as reasoned argument. Thus the antiabortionists call themselves "pro-lifers" and denounce their opponents as "baby killers." Those who support a woman's right to abortion call themselves "prochoice" and deride the other side as "compulsory pregnancy people...
...think he turned our clergy on politically." The aroused ministers quickly discovered that the politics of abortion is a bruising business. Last week a more stringent version of the Hyde amendment easily passed the House. It would ban federal funds for all abortions except cases in which a woman's life is in danger. As in past years, the Senate is expected to add exceptions for cases of rape, incest or potentially severe damage to the mother's physical health and then pass the legislation handily...
...survey, which was taken last year, also reported that the proportion of women between 25 and 29 who have never married climbed from 10.5% in 1960 to 18%. Since 1970 the number of families headed by a woman rose 43%, from 5.6 million to 8 million. Divorce is now so common, the report added, that nearly half of all children born today can expect to spend a meaningful portion of their lives before age 18 in single-parent families. The report did not speculate on what psychological effects that may have on the young...
...basic training and learns that trying to be fair is a kind of condescension. A sophisticated Eastern writing teacher plays Pygmalion to a gifted but corn-fed coed in Iowa. A stoic, weanling New York lawyer is gently and blessedly maneuvered into an affair with a middle-aged woman. An incipient Washington administrator's friendship with a young Soviet reveals the bureaucratic fate that awaits them both...