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new hartford, ny

Thank you New York Times for this clear-eyed editorial. It is depressing to
read comments, including the NYT Picks, which show how muddled this issue has
become. As you note the UN Human Rights Council, forcing a woman to carry a
pregnancy to term against her will ""can amount to torture."" I have heard
reports of women serving prison time when they are suspected of abortion --
this is simply wrong, cruel, inhuman, horrifying. And Ohio wants to do this?
I don't know how many people are actually on the fence about this, but it is
important for this to be discussed in frank terms, as the editorial does.
Whatever the right calls itself, it is anti-abortion and anti-woman, meaning
it wants to deprive women of their privacy, ability to determine their health
care, their bodies, their health, their futures -- all of which can be
affected if they are forced by government, etc to carry to term a pregnancy
they do not want.
By relentlessly pushing anti-abortion bills, the right manages to keep
muddying the water. Roe v. Wade is not perfect, but it's the only protection
women have on this score and until there is an expansion -- in the great
dispensation, when women are actually left alone to manage their own bodies --
Roe v. Wade must stand.

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Bellaire, TX

Ah, the magic! Marianne Elliot has done it again:hers is a breathtakingly
beautiful staging of our most magnificent play(and, it's clear by now,Tony
Kushner's Don Giovanni).
I'd like to point out two small, sublime moments in this production that might
go unnoticed:
Andrew Garfield's Prior( heartbreaking, with a plangent Falcon voice) descents
from Heaven-a theater perhaps in San Francisco, with house curtain and all-and
lands exquisitely in his hospital bed, held aloft by the Angel Shadows.
Nathan Lane(magnificent), now playing one of Prior's ancestors(remember the
Bajeux Tapestry?), decked out in a Louis XIV wig and regalia, walks from
center stage to stage left and incorporates a miniature leap(a glissé? pas de
Basque?)while speaking with the most outrageous Maggie Smith elocution this
side of Downton Abbey.
One could quibble with one or two of the performances, but that would be
ungenerous. Angels in America is, after all, an acting marathon. And Ms.
Elliott's reading is such an overwhelming experience that one can only be
grateful to all the artists involved.
In Perestroika, Harper Pitt mentions ""unspeakable beauty"".
Indeed.

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