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...whose stare melts the screen--she spits out seductive invectives in a crypto-Carpathian accent; Olympias may be Philip's wife, but she is Dracula's daughter. And Jolie inhabits her with an awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie's real vengeance is to invade the film's story and conquer it. This man's movie is a woman's triumph after all. --By Richard Corliss
...CHARLES J. CHAPUT Archbishop of Denver No people can build a just society on 3,000 to 4,000 abortions a day. A nation that tolerates killing innocent children in the womb forfeits any claim as a beacon of freedom. I hope the President will use his second term to limit abortion and protect the unborn child in every way possible...
Twenty-three years ago, dated from Nov. 6, my mother was injected with prostaglandin hormones to induce pregnancy. Apparently I was in no hurry to leave—and can you blame me? With an entire womb to myself, the chance to swim all day and all the food I could eat, pre-natal life was a breeze. But the obstetrician’s vacation schedule and my mother’s impatience meant my life in the womb had to end. I screamed as my own mother evicted me from her cozy uterus...
...ratio represents a 27% increase since 1980. Advances in neonatal care have saved many children who might otherwise have died. And lots of babies who leave the intensive-care unit grow up to be healthy, vibrant adults. But no incubator--no matter how high tech--will ever replace the womb. The goal, as doctors and nurses who treat ultrafragile preemies will tell you, should be to keep infants from ever needing extraordinary measures in the first place...
Specialists in the U.S. often transfer several embryos into the womb during in vitro fertilization (IVF) in hopes of boosting the chance that one of them will "take" and therefore boost their clinic's success rate. Studies suggest, however, that the odds of a successful pregnancy may be the same whether you implant one, two or three embryos. Many European countries have decided to restrict their IVF clinics to one or two embryos per pregnancy. Dr. Lockwood and other physicians think such a limit might make sense in the U.S. as well...