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...Schwartz, administrative assistant to Representative Tom Coburn, a doctor from Oklahoma who last year tried to bar the FDA from spending federal funds to develop any kind of abortion drug. Schwartz thinks it is inevitable that the drug will be prescribed for women who are more than seven weeks pregnant, that there will be a lack of patient compliance and that someone will die from it. "These are predictable consequences, even with the guidelines," he says...
...immediate effect. Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation based on the fact that nearly all those arrested were African American. The hospital soon reached an agreement with the department's Office for Civil Rights to stop telling law enforcers when pregnant women test positive. But the high court still must decide the constitutional question: Does the purported damage being done to unborn children--and the cost to the public of caring for addicted babies--outweigh the requirement that officials obtain warrants for searches...
...made a resurgence as abortion-rights foes look for new battles at a time when politicians of both major parties say little about abortion. For instance, conservatives have helped pass laws in 19 states that automatically invalidate a "right-to-die" living will for a woman if she gets pregnant; 11 other states invalidate such a document if birth is possible, according to Rachel Roth, author of Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights...
Some of the most dramatic cases have nothing to do with drugs. Last month in Attleboro, Mass., a judge ordered Rebecca Corneau to be sent to a center for pregnant inmates until she gives birth, which will be any day. Last year Corneau gave birth to a son, who died soon afterward. Prosecutors say he would have lived had he undergone a routine procedure to clear his fragile lungs, but Corneau belongs to a religious sect that rejects modern medicine. She also rejects the authority of the government, and so has declined to hire a lawyer. The A.C.L.U. has asked...
Cruz has been beguiling international audiences since 1992, when she played the youngest of four loving sisters in the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque. She gave birth on a city bus in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, played a pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...