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...parishioners face the hard choices every day. "Your main recreation is television. You eat a lot of rice, pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because even at a public health clinic, it's $25 a visit...
Last is best. Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants (directed by Tony Richardson) is a vignette from 1925 Spain. At a dusty rural railway station, a writer with wanderlust (James Woods) and his pregnant girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) warily discuss what is never explicitly mentioned: an abortion. Writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion produced dialogue that is Earnestly true, not faux Papa. Woods, edgy as usual, and Griffith, her little- girl voice on the edge of tears, generate real sexual tension...
...instincts that have made Pauley shine brightest in a galaxy of female TV news superstars. Diane Sawyer has the beauty and brains but neither the warmth nor a program that shows her off to much advantage. Connie Chung's recent announcement that she is taking time off to get pregnant seemed a bizarre blurring of the line between public and private selves, just the sort of thing Pauley has so gracefully avoided...
...Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously upheld a woman's right to sue her doctor for failing to inform her that a case of German measles while she was pregnant put her in grave risk of having a child with serious birth defects. The woman contended that if she had received information from her doctors about the potential for birth defects she would have had an abortion. In a separate concurring opinion Souter raised an issue that the full court did not address...
...youngsters are required to be in their rooms doing homework until 10 p.m. The packed curriculum includes lessons twice a week in leadership, spiritual development and "wellness," a catchall term for such subjects as sexuality and drug use. "Students can't graduate if they're pregnant or addicted," explains wellness instructor Georgia Ringle. "And these kids are at risk for such things...