Ross Douthat ("The 'Safe, Legal, Rare' Illusion," column, Feb. 19) cherry-picks a Guttmacher Institute survey finding — that only a small proportion of abortion patients gave cost as a reason for not using contraception — to support his unwarranted generalization that cost is not a barrier to contraceptive use.
We over-protect and over-manage our children, we try to control all the inputs into their lives, we're 'helicopter parents.' That feeling of that we're making life safe is an illusion, which I lost the moment my son fell to the kitchen floor, and then into a coma.
After all these years, that secret is still safe: "We all respect the illusion," said the production stage manager, Craig Jacobs.
If the houses in fairytales are ever orderly, neat and safe, it is a momentary illusion; you may be sure there is a nasty surprise lurking.
Although these death-defying activities might appear to break all health and safety regulations for a public art project, they're perfectly safe: it's all an illusion, created with mirrors.
Among the documentary nominees Charles Ferguson's "No End in Sight" vividly explains how the ground beneath us became quicksand just before the Iraq war, while Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" demonstrates that United States efforts to create the illusion of a safer world can take out innocents along the way.
Any illusion of a suburban safe haven was dashed by a recent national survey by the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra.
From the human point of view, the "war" is nothing but an endless massacre, without any illusion of rescue or safe haven.
Even if it is recognized that despite all measures the attempt to generate maximal safety is an illusion, the principle "better safe than sorry" prevails.
People love the illusion that clubs are safe spaces where everyone is free and equal.
