Hard pill to swallow
foreign policy and, surprisingly, on the Supreme Court and Among women who had a prior surgical abortion, re- abortion. Gore was surefooted, but came across as long- ports were...
...enemies to act like friends...
...was inside the girl" because she was "screaming insults in a Amorth claims to have exorcised more than three thousand cavernous voice" in Italian and "unknown languages...
...to do so at earlier and earlier dates...
...That would bring aborDoes this bit of rhetoric show any interest in addressing tion providers in line with the majority view in the United the issues of control that bring women to abortion...
...He people over the past fifteen years...
...and it is over in a few hours...
...equally true, however, that Arafat had my friend Yasser and my friend Ehud...
...It was a little overwhelming to see...
...No earlier ones...
...All four assumptions have proved to gone as far as he could on Jerusalem's This actually happened shortly before be wrong...
...In none of these jection to one form of abortion does raise an interesting ques- countries has the advent of the drug increased the overall tion, however...
...EXORCIST POPE 'CASTS OUT ical origins...
...Arafat is weak, depends on U.S...
...Vice-presidential candidate be reasonable, the cost of unreasonable- second, is that security steps and con- Joseph Lieberman said after the Demoness will compel them to accept reason...
...again...
...If you out of his way to indicate that he was not an extremist who have any doubts about having an abortion, I think it would would make overturning Roe v. Wade a high priority, and be difficult...
...Bishop Gian- ther Gabriel Amorth, seventy-four, president of the Interni Danzi, secretary general of Vatican City, "realized who national Association of Exorcists, is frequently quoted...
...Nor does skepticism turned his attention to the young woman, he prayed over seem reflected in the decision of the Archdiocese of Chicago, her, exorcised her, and stayed with her for half an hour...
...fidence building come first...
...Fanineteen-year-old girl in Saint Peter's Square...
...Such abortions may or may not be more difficult healthy woman's right to choose partial-birth abortion...
...on in Chicago that we don't know about...
...But makes any prospective ban meaningless...
...Then, see- done...
...But if he is willing to If Gloria Feldt's sloganeering glosses over some of these ban partial-birth abortion under certain circumstances, he difficult realities, The National Right to Life Committee's cannot logically support "a woman's right to choose" in all attack on RU-486 as unsafe for women is equally unconcases...
...In Britain, 93 percent of women who have life or health of the mother...
...And they are not from the National tations of the devil is the rule for Catholics...
...gical ones: These women "feel more in charge, more in Could it be that RU-486 has and will continue to bring prescontrol of their personal health," Feldt says (New York Times, sure on those who provide and those who seek abortions September 29...
...after Vatican staff attempted to subdue her...
...on Israeli television, shaking hands with try is the most powerful in the region, The first is that people in the end will Ariel Sharon...
...He has also been accused of mugging tion because it felt less invasive than the surgical one: there for the cameras and stretching the truth in the anecdotal were no instruments or noise from the suction machine...
...Only when cratic convention that his firm public The second is that small steps are best reliable security arrangements exist be- commitment to Israel was no obstacle because they accustom people to change, tween the two sides will they be will- to his election since the United States make it seem less threatening, acquaint ing to move on to the heart of their itself is pro-Israel...
...When the pope This hardly sounds like skepticism...
...Voters looking for a level of comfort with of the women did express puzzlement at the use of the word Gore's personality still need to be wooed...
...The ments, since addressing them provokes settlement, the White House spin was aim has been to have the ex-general emotional and "irrational" responses...
...seems incredibly unnatural...
...Then Barak appeared preemptive compromises), but his counsumptions...
...foreign policy and, surprisingly, on the Supreme Court and Among women who had a prior surgical abortion, reabortion...
...In fact, some were distressed by the experience: ini- And abortion seekers...
...Or Will RU-486 change the American abortion landscape...
...Some preferred the RU-486-induced aborwinded and pedantic...
...should be...
...natural, however: "Natural...
...supports "a woman's right to choose...
...With the surgical method, you lie there and it's explicitly condemned only partial-birth abortion...
...However, the church, especially Guess Who's Back The headlines: "WE'VE NEVER since Vatican II, has recognized that much of what once BEEN BUSIER, SAYS OFFICIAL CHURCH EXORCIST...
...Anecdotal and statistical evidence suggests that, as in EuAn answer to a question like that might make the final rope, surgical abortion will remain the prevalent choice...
...What's going on here...
...Prime Minister Barak has not had to he American approach to the recent outbreak of violence, some of be very reasonable...
...life supporters...
...His only Peace process flawed from the start leverage is street violence, and violence may escape his control...
...Is there something going in his twenty-two years as pontiff...
...The though an official exorcism has never been performed there, results were inconclusive...
...Gore endlessly boasts that unlike Bush, he number of abortions...
...The Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reports that on Sep- But in the aftermath of the pope's actions, the media have tember 6, the pope performed an impromptu exorcism on a been filled with interviews with busy priest exorcists...
...ing an opportunity to maximize his advantage, Gore, like European statistics support this ambivalent reaction: In Clinton before him, disingenuously touted his own opposi- Sweden and in France, where RU-486 has been used for a tion to the procedure, saying he would sign a bill banning decade, fewer then one-quarter of abortion-seeking women partial-birth abortion provided it made exceptions for the ask for the drug...
...The devil is real, he expromptly notified the pope's personal secretary...
...One stories he told...
...Even if they don't want to The third assumption, related to the unshakable...
...sponOF SEVERAL MIN...
...Shouldn't all abortion decisions be a woman's alone...
...Someone should ask Gore why he doesn't support a vincing...
...could it be that there is something at stake other than a That is hard to predict...
...The health exception, of course, had a medical abortion say they would do so again...
...They certainly need support in tially there is intense cramping, and then nine-to-sixteen gaining a stronger sense of control, before they get pregdays of bleeding...
...How to achieve that requires a fuller and more honest the sac, the placenta, and, in more developed pregnancies public conversation-about personal responsibility, birth (the approved RU-486 cut-off limit is seven weeks), hints of control, the long-term effects of abortion, family policy, and human form...
...Or does the need This is all fairly ominous, especially since the 1973 for an exorcist have more to do with the condition of the hit, The Exorcist, was rereleased on September 22 to Chicago Bulls since Michael Jordan's retirement...
...sorship in the peace talks, and must rely WILLIAM PFAFF an the United States to work out a settlement acceptable to the Palestinians and the Arab world...
...weeks of this election campaign worthy of the public's While it was initially expected that more doctors in the Unitattention...
...Arafat has any doubt about that...
...Bush's evasive pragmatic grounds: a surgical abortion requires one trip to answers about abortion understandably alarmed his pro- the doctor as opposed to three...
...Exorcism, of course, is an ancient church practice...
...Gore was surefooted, but came across as long- ports were mixed...
...EXORCISTS FIGHT passed for demonic possession had psychological or physVATICAN TO KEEP HOLD OF SATAN...
...He is accountable for the IslamCommonweal 7 October 20, 2000...
...status...
...Jesus himself cast out demons...
...It was one another on the back, talking about solve themselves...
...This follows The final assumption is that it is use- When President Bill Clinton's latest from the American practice of person- ful to postpone the essential disagree- Camp David talks failed to produce a alizing international relationships...
...Skepticism about the alleged physical manifesDEMONS' IN THE VATICAN...
...Commonweal 6 October 20, 2000 packed theaters...
...Gore's stated ob- only 6 percent actually choose RU-486...
...that Barak had gone as far as he could Ehud Barak and the former political ter- Good personal relations and agreement on Jerusalem's status, and that since rorist Yasser Arafat dine at one anoth- at the security level, on the other hand, Arafat wouldn't accept his offer, Arafat er's homes, come out afterward and clap may allow fundamental problems to was responsible for the failure...
...He now is politithe Israeli-Palestinian con- the worst in the history of Israeli-Pales- cally weak (a paradoxical incentive to flict has rested on four as- tinian relations...
...sexual politics-than we have heard thus far...
...Consequently, Bush went [with RU-486...
...But his dilemma is clear enough: the Re- For some, there was a clear cognitive difference between publican Party's antichoice stance is an obstacle to attracting the two methods, "you really confront what you are doing undecided (mostly) women voters...
...To me it Both candidates fudge on difficult issues...
...for women, but they certainly appear to be safe...
...Take abortion...
...In many swing states abortion is a crucial, if muted, factor, Some of those who preferred surgical abortion did so on especially among undecided women voters...
...Satan is strong enough to possess ten say that the girl displayed "superhuman strength" even thousand people at the same time all over the world...
...Or at least it Enquirer, but London's Independent, Sunday Times, and Times...
...Neither Barak nor antagonists with one another, and lead disagreement...
...Witnesses ists," Amorth says...
...proval of the abortion pill, RU-486, Planned Parenthood What has changed, since the RU-486 clinical trials began, president Gloria Feldt reported that women in the clinical tri- is that abortion clinics, as a result of new techniques, have als said such medical abortions felt more natural than sur- been providing vacuum abortions earlier than seven weeks...
...above all, women were shocked at seeing nant...
...and its support from the United States is be reasonable...
...It was John Paul II's third exorcism to appoint its first full-time exorcist...
...He has had to comISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS promise, to be "reasonable...
...woman's right to choose in late-term abortions...
...ed States would be willing to provide RU-486 abortions than perform surgical abortion, a Pittsburgh doctor training his colleagues in the use of the drug, reports that initial interest drops rapidly when doctors learn of FDA requirements HARD PILL TO SWALLOW about its use: the number of patient visits along with state rules about abortion registration, fetal tissue disposal, and During last month's media fanfare surrounding FDA ap- even the technical design of doctors' offices...
...Does States that later abortions are more morally repellent than it accurately reflect what women said in clinical trials...
...That is baffling to me...
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