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Just two days after the court's ruling, pro-life activists were applauding an even more stunning victory: the Louisiana legislature gave final approval to the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The bill would make abortion a punishable criminal act unless the life of the mother was at stake. It allows no exception for victims of rape or incest...
Sometimes when it is not feasible to make abortions following rape or incest illegal, the movement settles for cutting off Medicaid funds. "Rape and incest are tragedies," says Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, author of the federal restriction, "but why visit on the second victim, the unborn child that is the product of that criminal act, capital punishment?" Forcing only poor women to have the children of their rapists, says the pro-choice movement, shows how heartless the right-to-life movement...
Short of banning abortion outright, the pro-life movement is lobbying legislatures to impose reporting requirements on victims of rape and incest that would make such abortions nearly impossible to obtain. Says the National Right to Life Committee's spokeswoman, Susan Smith: "We do everything we can to eliminate abortions and to prevent funding for rape and incest, but where it is inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that...
Smidt is ready to make his move even now: he plans to open a branch of his firm, Ecoplan, in Leipzig. He is well prepared, having spent many a vacation since the early '70s traveling in the East. "What pleases me," he says, "is that after 40 years of totalitarianism, independent thinking remains in the East. The people never identified with the communist state...
Perhaps some things to benefit themselves and their community as well. "We have developed a kind of perfectionism that bothers me," says Hoell. "We could probably make do with 80% and live better." Working hard -- perhaps too hard -- has been part of the price paid by a generation that Priebisch says "was forced to perform, to build something from nothing." The society, says Wiethoff, has a lot to learn. "It has to do with prosperity, which has made us hard and asocial. We talk a lot about our wealth and our clever politics, but what...