Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when having a baby may seriously harm the-phys-ical or mental health of the mother. The California decision-the first of its kind by a major state court-now casts constitutional doubt on rigid abortion laws in no fewer than 41 other states. Also, by emphasizing that a woman has a right to decide whether or not she wants a child, it may have given California hospital abortion committees the support they need to be more liberal in approving abortions...
Many Supporters. Belous was brought to trial after he referred a young unmarried woman to an experienced Hollywood abortionist, who performed the operation for her. Because of the woman's emotional state, Belous had feared that she might try an abortion on herself or seek one in nearby Tijuana, Mexico-either of which would have involved a risk to her life Whatever his intentions, he was convicted, fined $5,000 and put on probation for two years. His appeal attracted an awesome list of supporters...
...decision, California Supreme Court Justice Raymond Peters noted that the state once had an obvious interest in preventing abortions. Any internal surgery used to be dangerous, said Peters, in the days when doctors could not control infection. Today, he pointed out, it is safer for a woman to have a hospital abortion in her first three months of pregnancy than to have a child. For this reason, said Peters, the statute cannot be defended on the ground that it serves to prevent death from the abortion procedure. This interpretation, he continued, would actually infringe on a woman's right...
Divorced. By James Roosevelt, 61, eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former U.S. Congressman, who now works for a Geneva-based investment firm: Gladys Owens Roosevelt, 52, currently free on bail after stabbing Roosevelt last May because she thought he was about to leave her for another woman; on grounds of incompatibility; after 13 years of marriage, one adopted son; in Geneva...
...California sun. It is much to the credit of Director Francis Ford Coppola that he refused to accept that kind of prefabricated fakery. Bundling a handful of actors and technicians into a fleet of cars, he drove from New York to Colorado, filming a story about a young married woman on the run from responsibility. The result, called The Rain People, has such a strong sense of the U.S. as a dramatic character that Coppola's people tend to melt into the landscape...