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...choice" places. Counselors do not fully inform women about other options, and sometimes even lie to them. A former El Paso clinic manager stated, "If a woman we were counseling expressed doubts about having an abortion, we would say whatever was necessary to persuade her to abort immediately." Clinic workers are instructed not to allow women to view the ultrasound, because seeing the unborn child will discourage the woman from having an abortion...
...John McCain is finished!" Keyes ranted. Keyes had torn into McCain in their past debate for waffling about whether his 15-year-old daughter, if she were to become pregnant, would be the one to choose whether or not to abort. (McCain ultimately said the family would decide.) "He's done! Stick a fork in him! Nobody who's pro-life will vote for that man if they have any integrity...
...your father walked out before you were born and your mother says she tried to abort you by guzzling turpentine, you may grow up with a sour view of humanity. Mary Patricia Plangman Highsmith--born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921--had murder on her mind from the first of her 23 novels, the 1950 Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock made a film of it a year later, though he dared include only one of the book's two murders. Soon after, the woman whom screenwriter Michael Tolkin (The Player) calls "our best expatriate since Henry James" left...
...dollar Mars Observer, lost en route in 1993 and now presumably doing its observing outside the Oort cloud), NASA officials have to be concerned by the timing of these high-profile failures. Tuesday, the agency announced it would reevaluate the Mars program, a move that could delay or even abort NASA's ambitious plans to send a lander and an orbiter to Mars every 26 months for the next decade. The loss of two straight probes prompts questions about whether the agency isn't cutting too many corners, sending out untested spacecraft without enough built-in redundancies...
...pursuing an anti-homophobic politics, I find the quest for homosexuality's origins completely uninteresting. If queerness is biological, homophobes will abort proto-gay fetuses or correct "gay genes" and enlarged hypothalami; if it's constructed, they'll send their proto-gay children to therapy...