Progressive
San Francisco may be a
card-carrying pro-choice city where abortions are readily accessible. But just because a hipster chick can wear a snarky T-shirt that could very well get her burned at the stake in more conservative zip codes hasn't
erased abortion's taboo within the city's immigrant communities.
As
reported in the New York Times
earlier this month, an ongoing study indicates that some immigrant Latinas from
fiercely anti-abortion cultures will avoid abortion clinic
Abortion has commandeered headlines of late with the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade last week and Saturday's pro-life rally -- for which many protesters bused into this pro-choice lair from more conservative California zip codes. But there is one story of anti-abortion zeal here in our own backyard that hasn't yet been reported on outside of the Catholic press.
Namely, pregnant co-eds at the University of San Francisco are flat out of luck if they want financial help to get an abortio
Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?
Susan StefanskiAngel Gabriel
For many single gals in San Francisco, a dude in an angel costume attempting to dispense advice for her pregnancy would seem like a creative ploy for pocket change. Halo headgear a la the biblical Angel Gabriel are optional for the throngs of local Catholics expected to flock to the St. Mary's Cathedral on Saturday to train in the ways of Gabriel to persuade women to bring their pregnancy to term. Not a typical message in a large
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