Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into the world," says Fallaci, 46. Is the iconoclast revealing...
...live birth rested on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. Both at the trial and at the appeal last April, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his argument in emotionalism. Flanagan could not refute the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside the mother's womb, but he could shout, as he did at the appeal, that "this is the case of a child that was born." And even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life was viable or that Edelin had intentionally harmed...
...prosecution's top witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez-Jimeno, testified at the first trial that the fetus died within the womb while Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision...
...murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...
...public and in private, to rise from the gutter into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the now-pardoned president also consistently set a model of self-interest that encouraged young Americans not to sacrifice their early adulthood to social causes like the Peace Corps but rather to the womb-like safety and promised material rewards of professional school. Gerald Ford has only nudged our national self-image up a small notch from the Nixonesque nadir; today we are encouraged to be the kind of team player for mediocrity that offers a warm tribute to Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz after his unconscionable...