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...NARAL Pro-Choice America. About the best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense of the procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who made the sassy declaration that the Christian right should meet "the right Christians...
Politicians in the Philippines are often combative, even outrageous. But when it comes to the issue of contraception, they keep awfully quiet. They know the Catholic Church considers artificial birth control immoral, unholy and akin to abortion, and they know the church plays hardball. Senator Rodolfo Biazon dared to propose a family-planning bill last fall that is still looking for a co-sponsor. For his trouble, the ex-Armed Forces Chief of Staff was branded "antichurch" by the president of the hugely influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, and "Satan" and "anti-Christ" by the faithful. That...
...Renata Plachetkova was rushed into the delivery room for the birth of her second child, a nurse thrust a paper in her face, saying, "You must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of the procedure, Plachetkova consented. "I had no choice," she says. "I had to sign." A 27-year-old mother of two from Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, Plachetkova is one of some 110 Roma women who allege that they were forcibly sterilized in Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall...
...available until August 2000, when the Florida Supreme Court threw out an obstructionist lawsuit by the National Organization of Women. Today there are 37,000 Florida “Choose Life” plates and $1,480,000 has been raised to promote adoption and other pro-birth solutions. Alabama, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma have also recently put such plates on the road as well...
...Hirschfeld sketch increased after 1945, when Dolly gave birth to their daughter Nina. Hirschfeld began hiding her name within his portraits of famous men and women - in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown, in a Groucho jacket fold. (Good thing they hadn't named the child Hildegarde.) Eventually he placed a numeral next to his signature - e.g., "Hirschfeld 5" - to indicate how often the Ninas appeared. Forty years before Martin Handford was playing "Where's Waldo?", Spotting the Ninas was the niftiest Sunday parlor game. I recall the little thrill I felt on first hearing of the ruse, back in college...