Word: aborting
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With the arrival of RU 486 in the U.S. -- especially in a form that requires the woman merely to take pills rather than also get a shot -- the vision of some pro-choice advocates, that the drug could abort the abortion debate, will be tested. Will antiabortion activists find ways to restrict the availability of the abortion pill? And if not, will RU 486 really obviate the clinics and confound the picketers...
...most profound disagreement. I will never, ever accept that abortion is justified because a child might suffer or it is unwanted. Those are two of the most selfish, unpredictable reasons to abort a child that I can imagine. And they cut to the quick of why I'm opposed to it. If that were applied, Beethoven might not have lived. Jesse Jackson might not have lived, for crying out loud...
Formerly, the surrogate mother and the couple employing her signed a contract that specified her fee, promised her payment of medical expenses, and required that she give up the baby. In some cases, it also required her to abort an abnormal fetus. Under the new law, payment is allowed only for medical expenses. Any further commercial transaction was illegal resulted in a fine...
...variation on those World War I tales of Yuletide fraternization in no-man's-land. A Midnight Clear, which is based on a William Wharton novel, evades that onslaught. Loopy Mother sees to that. And even if he had not come out of his half-mad nowhere to violently abort a very sensible arrangement, there is, after all, a war going on out there somewhere. What hope can there possibly be for humane gesturing...
Some pro-life gays also oppose abortion because of the possibility that sexual-orientation-selection abortions may become as widespread as sex-selection abortions. If a gene which inclines or predilects people towards homosexuality is discovered, they note, parents could decide whether they want to abort children who might end up homosexual...