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...northern neighbors. Last month some 20,000 women marched through downtown Rome, urging abortion on demand and chanting: "The womb is mine/ and I'll manage it fine!" A compromise bill is likely to be enacted, permitting abortion in the first 90 days of pregnancy if a doctor approves...
Back into the Womb...
...crawling back into the womb, and we will die as a nation...
When Laborite Aneurin Bevan set up Britain's "womb-to-tomb" National Health Service a generation ago, he responded to doctors' opposition by declaring, "I shall stop their mouths with money." Their criticisms have never really ceased, however, and in recent months NHS doctors have been objecting with increasing vehemence to a government plan that could severely curtail the lucrative private practices many of the senior specialists maintain on the side. Last week their resentment finally erupted into action. In the first nationwide strike since NHS was founded, the 15,000 junior physicians who provide much...
...historian of the Rhodes Trust, himself an ex-warden of Rhodes House, calls the founder's vision one of "Oxford as a nursery of leaders, the energizing source of Empire and the womb of a thousand years of peace for mankind." Michael E. Kinsley '72, a second year law student and former Rhodes scholar, says that to the extent that Rhodes's idea was "to turn the future leaders of America into Anglophiles, it makes perfect sense for women to be admitted" to the foundation. Now that three Oxford colleges have gone co-ed, he says, there isn't really...