Word: abortions
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There is an additional concern among foes of legal intervention. They fear that the real goal in these cases may be an unspoken one: an end run around the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision found that the rights of the mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious...
Susman put to his own purposes a tactic of the antiabortion forces, who argue that scientific advances will invalidate Roe by making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
...abortion would almost certainly result in a further increase in the already high rate of illegitimate births -- now at 23% of American children born each year -- and teenage pregnancies. Taxpayers would end up footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists Dr. John...
Ehrenreich said that, as one of 22 million women who have had abortions since the procedure was made legal in 1973, she felt extremely relieved because she was able to abort...
...already possible, through a variety of prenatal tests, to determine whether a child will be a boy or a girl, retarded or crippled, or the victim of some fatal genetic disorder. The question of what to do with that information runs squarely into the highly charged issue of abortion. Many could sympathize with a woman who chooses to terminate a pregnancy rather than have a baby doomed to a painful struggle with, say, Tay- Sachs disease or Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But what about the mother of three daughters who wants to hold out for a son? Or the couple that...