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Comparatively few who seek abortions have strictly medical reasons, such as their own health or suspected congenital abnormality in the fetus. Rape and incest account for a negligible percentage of unwanted pregnancies. Women seek legal abortions for the familiar reasons: reluctance to interrupt career plans, lack of money, fear of losing personal freedom, uncertainty about their relationship with the man involved...
...American Law Institute's recommended code. The measure allows abortion up to the 16th week if a board of doctors agrees that the pregnancy endangers the physical or emotional health of the woman, if there is suspicion of fetal abnormality, or if pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Since then, eleven other states, including California, have adopted variations of the recommended code...
Dubious Advice. Reuben employs his familiar casual coyness, strained informality, unconvincing case histories and weak jokes. There is also some sloppy scholarship and an occasional piece of dubious advice. For example, he gleefully quotes "a veteran police officer" who advises women threatened with imminent rape to take the assailant's testicles in one hand and smash them with the other. In his conflicting role as women's liberator and amiable guardian of traditional femininity, Reuben asks: "Should a woman really do something as terrible as that?" Naturally, the good liberal doctor would not want to be responsible...
...Journal of the American Medical Association to publish what may be the last word on the subject. In "The Foreskin Saga," Harnes puts the "debate" into perspective in a strikingly successful spoof of the ponderous,reports that usually appear in medical publications (among earlier titles of serious articles: "The Rape of the Phallus," "Penile Plunder"). Believing that the circumcision controversy is ludicrous and the sensual argument unprovable, Harnes merely concocted some insights and phony research...
Remember the Jaycees, those youngish strivers with Middle American enthusiasm for beauty pageants, Mother's Day corsages and business success? Well, these days one chapter president is serving ten years on a rape conviction and another is doing 20 years for assault and robbery. In all, some 9,000 members of the organization are in prison, and another 8,000 dues-paying boosters are ex-cons...