Word: abortionist
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...that the majority of state laws banning abortion before Roe were intended not to safeguard the life of the fetus, but rather to protect the mother from dangerous proceedings. The only evidence he offers in support of this is the fact that most of these statutes criminalized only the abortionist and not the would-be mother. This proves only that those outraged by abortion, then as now, understood that abortion was a crime in which often the woman would be victimized almost as much as the unborn child. Also, since 36 of the states had abortion laws that were "strict...
...whether abortion would be treated as first degree murder, and if so who would be prosecuted. The act that most old abortion statutes, by the author's own charge, criminalized the doctor, seems to answer that question. The mother, in-most cases, is so traumatized and exploited by the abortionist, and often by the fetus's father, that she is under enough mental duress to exculpate her from a large degree of the guilt, even under conventional insanity law. That is why the law must stop the abortion from happening in the first place. As for the abortionist, there...
...state laws prohibiting abortion. Since then, the President says, "more than 15 million unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions." Turning almost harrowingly explicit, Reagan writes: "The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being." Another passage: "But how many Americans are aware that abortion techniques are allowed today...
...frieze's granite back, originally inscribed with the pieties of Harvard President Charles Eliot ("The white officers taking life and honor in their hands cast in their lot with men of a despised race ..."), has been reinscribed with an indignant black crayon: "Stop the genocide of the abortionist degenerates! Stop abortion holocaust! Stop capital punishment for the innocent unborn!" That in turn has been covered, like buried layers of forgotten civilizations, by orange spray paint: "John Lennon lives on forever...
...knavish political science professor of the Herbert Marcuse persuasion; she moves into the apartment he shares with two other women and a toddler named Mao; she is encouraged by her lover to sleep with a downstairs neighbor; she becomes pregnant by one or the other and heads for the abortionist's waiting room...