MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR JULY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Alissa Rubin “What We Talk About When We Talk About Abortion” The Washington City Paper We thought we’d rather get a...
...In her July 3 story, Alissa Rubin changed our minds...
...Her probing, dispassionate interviews with women waiting their turns in one D.C...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Deanna Lee “Inside Tutwiler Prison for Women” ABC “Nightline” See Political Booknotes, page 59...
...Rubin’s sometimes sickening reportage doesn’t form an argument for either side...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...As a 23-year-old who disdains “artificial” contraception comes in for her third “operation,” it’s hard to deny that we’ve made the taking of life a little too easy...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manlfestation...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in October will close November 15...
...But can we ask the terrified 15-year-old Iranian girl with so much growing left to do to bear the burden of the pro-life alternative...
...instead, her stories are an implicit challenge to both...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...abortion clinic slices through the ideology and shows us some of the reasons-from sheer convenience to appalling ignorance to virtual entrapment by a male lover-that women exercise their vaunted “right to choose...
...What we can ask, Rubin’s story gently suggests, is that both sides make common cause, through frank sex education and aggressive advocacy of birth control, to keep women out of the clinic in the first place...
...The winner will be announced in the Januarypebruary issue...
...20009...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR JULY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Alissa Rubin “What We Talk About When We Talk About Abortion” The Washington City Paper We thought we’d rather get a Pap smear than read another word about abortion...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
Vol. 24 • October 1992 • No. 10
