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Samuels said, "A Human Rights Amendment would not stop women from getting abortions--it would only make them more dangerous." She added that the amendment would prevent rape victims from aborting the fetuses conceived in the assault.
Dorothy J. Samuels, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, disagreed, saying that scientists and the Supreme Court cannot decide when life begins and that "there is nothing more personal than the right to decide freely whether or not to have children."
Samuels added that the Human Rights Amendment threatens our constitutional rights because "the constitution is supposed to protect us from having others' religious and moral beliefs forced upon us."
Samuels has not turned to visual minimalism for this production; a bare stage and black costumes suggest themselves to such austere lines, but they would only denigrate Mamet's subtler minimalism. While set and costumes are uncluttered, they afford details that allow the lines their bareness, filling in little gaps...
As the set changes to the single automobile seat of Dark Pony, the gaps of ambiguity widen. A father recites a familiar fairytale to his young daughter as they drive home in the car. Brown and Zito are convincing enough, but the point of the play is muddy. When they...