Over the last century, the link between sex and reproduction has weakened. Feminist activism, aided by technological advances, has given middle-class women in the United States widespread access to effective contraception and safe, legal abortion.
Read more →LAST NOVEMBER, KHALID ADEM, an Ethiopian immigrant living in Atlanta, received a 10-year prison sentence for cutting off the clitoris of his 2-year-old daughter. (He pleaded innocent, accusing the girl’s mother, his ex-wife, of orchestrating the cutting.
Read more →Turkish writer Yashar Kemal is best known for Memed, My Hawk (1955), the first of four novels starring the title’s good-hearted brigand. They Burn the Thistles concludes this quartet.
Read more →IN 1967, THE REV. HOWARD MOODY, a Baptist minister in New York City, founded what he recently described as a “faith-based organization.” Its purpose, he later wrote, was “to defy an oppressive and unjust law.
Read more →Circa 1970, one pro-choice activist explained the significance of abortion this way: “We can get all the rights in the world,” she said, but “none of them means a doggone thing if we don’t own the flesh we stand in.
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