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...humbly submit that there are more important issues facing this land. Given current federal deficit extrapolations, when many of these baby/appendages grow into taxpaying adults in about 2015 they will be very angry with those who did not abort them. It would serve our nation very well to channel the energy being expended in San Jose, Philadelphia and Jackson, Miss, towards the problems of those who can already see the light of day and the grim realities it brings...
...accepted. Until people accept us, all the scientific evidence in the world will not do anything to change homophobia." Moreover, gays are worried that precise identification of a "gayness gene" might prompt efforts to tinker with the genetic code of gay adults or to test during pregnancy and abort potentially gay fetuses. Says Thomas Stoddard, director of the Campaign for Military Service: "One can imagine the science of the future manipulating information of this kind to reduce the number of gay people being born...
Terrible Choice: Will families want to abort gay babies...
...writer and editor at Freedom House, a human-rights group. "We want to put people on notice that we have a direction, and we want these to be the central topics of discussion and action by our generation." Bill Strauss, 46, co-author of the book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? and one of the few participants in the group over 40, compares the declaration with the anti- Establishment Port Huron Statement issued by Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society in 1962. Says Strauss: "I am optimistic that when we look back at the history...
When the pill does become available in America, abortion will not be as easy as going to the doctor and taking some of the tablets home -- at least not right away. In France, for instance, a woman is required to pay four visits over a three-week period to one of the country's 800 licensed clinics or hospitals. The first step is a gynecological exam. Doctors make sure the pregnancy is in its early stages, and a social worker or psychologist discusses with her the decision to abort. Then the woman is sent home for a weeklong "reflection" period...