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June 2005
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My
Adventure With Ann Richards
“Are you it?” she asked when we first met at the Sheraton
Hotel front desk. I was nervous and she was frantic. “What
the hell is it about Vermont? I just drove up from Boston and I
am starved. There is no damn place on your entire highway to eat.
Why I finally got the driver to pull into one of your very nice
rest stops and not a thing to eat. Get me an orange.”
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Legality
vs. Reality: Why Laws Aren’t Enough to Ensure Abortion Access
in Vermont
The second line is faint but unmistakable,
and it shows the one outcome of home pregnancy tests not celebrated
on television commercials: unhappily expecting. I’m a sixteen-year-old
victim of incest and rape. I’m twenty-three and in law
school. I’m thirty, married with three children. I’m
forty with grown children. I’m your mother, your sister,
your daughter, niece, cousin, neighbor — and I want to
terminate this pregnancy. What now?
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BEYOND
the Traditional, into the Limitless
Depth, emotion, and freedom are just some
of the words that emerging artist Rachel Moore uses to describe
the “powerfully passionate” art emanating from women
at work today. The words wonderfully characterize the body of
work to be found this summer in Stowe at the Helen Day Art Center
(HDAC) in the group exhibit “Women’s Work: No Boundaries.”
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Civil
Unions and Marriage Laws in New England
More than 1,400 specific federal protections,
rights, and responsibilities relate to the status of being married,
according to the legal department at GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates
and Defenders, headquartered in Boston). These include the ability
to share benefits – from Social Security and pension benefits
to COBRA retirement benefits and ERISA (employer-provided health
insurance); the ability to transfer property to a spouse without
triggering the gift tax; and being taxed as a couple under IRS
rules.
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Baggage
I love it when it’s warm enough
to drive around with the windows open, with all the signs of
summer bursting forth. Ancient cemetery lilacs in bloom; new
foals and calves in the herds; red-winged blackbirds staking
out turf on fence posts and cat-tail stalks.
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