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...answer for Quayle: "If the Vice President thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure abortion remains safe and legal." Given that Murphy Brown was pregnant, what did Quayle expect her to do? Have an abortion? Her decision to go ahead and have the child was in harmony with the Administration's pro-life convictions. Why criticize her then? Harrumph: she should never have got pregnant in the first place. Or, more pertinently: the creators...
...argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a "poverty of values" that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown. The title character, a divorced news anchorwoman, got pregnant and chose to have the baby, a boy, who was delivered on last Monday's episode, watched by 38 million Americans. "It doesn't help matters," Quayle complained, when Brown, "a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman" is portrayed as "mocking the importance of fathers...
...Harvard officials said yesterday Johnson couldn't make the date because he wanted to be near his wife, Cookie, who is pregnant...
...Nielsens, but No. 1 in the hearts of the upscale "I rarely watch network TV" crowd, Murphy Brown is about to hit the climax of its four-year run. A year ago, Murphy -- 42, unmarried star reporter for a TV magazine show called FYI -- got pregnant and (after a brief flurry of interest in the father's identity) decided to have her baby alone. Now, with her due date approaching, the series is gearing up for a season-ending double whammy: & next week's celebrity shower and then, on the season finale, the baby's arrival. Get ready...
...right owner they provide sensitive, undemanding companionship. But if any of the Giant Africans are the same species that terrorized Florida for several years during the 1970s, they can also cause disaster on a biblical scale. Sexually mature at the age of five months, a single pregnant, hermaphroditic snail can, if it escapes to the wild, give rise to as many as 16 quadrillion descendants in five years. Armed with 80,000 rasping teeth and weighing up to a pound, each of these offspring can wade through an entire head of lettuce at one sitting. "It eats anything," says University...