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...Rented Womb...
...was outraged by Michelle Cottle's article, in which she confessed she wasn't much of an environmentalist until now, when she is pregnant [April 18]. What selfishness! Is it all right then to destroy the environment as long as it affects only those who are out of the womb? Preserving the environment has to be humankind's top priority at all times. Conserving what we have requires a careful balancing of benefits and costs, plus modulated change. With allies like Cottle, who needs enemies...
...since the case was decided. Most troubling of all to the right-to-life movement was Roe's establishment of the trimester theory of pregnancy, which holds that a government's legitimate interest in the life of the fetus grows as the fetus moves toward viability outside the womb. In her blunt dissent to one of the 1983 decisions, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the trimester theory was arbitrary. Said she: "I believe that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists throughout pregnancy." Right-to-life advocates now say that new medical technology makes...
...foyer of Jane Fonda's loft apartment is a warm pink oval--softly lit, windowless and strangely familiar. A few paces in, the room narrows to a bright seam of a doorway that resembles the more unabashed works of Georgia O'Keeffe. "The entryway is a womb, and the door is a vagina," says Fonda in her startling vibrato. "I had it designed so that you're sort of delivered into the loft. Don't you love...
...foyer of Jane Fonda's loft apartment is a warm pink oval-softly lit, windowless and strangely familiar. A few paces in, the room narrows to a bright seam of a doorway that resembles the more unabashed works of Georgia O'Keeffe. "The entryway is a womb, and the door is a vagina," says Fonda in her startling vibrato. "I had it designed so that you're sort of delivered into the loft. Don't you love...