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DYSON: The real challenge is going to be for the next generation of pediatricians who have to design your baby. It's in the field of genetics and genetic engineering where faith and morality questions will play out. Is it immoral now to abort a Down syndrome baby? In the future, should you use technology to create a perfect baby, finding the right genes? And then you'll be responsible for what you have created in a way that you never were before. No more "will...
...with the responsibility of taking care of them.” China’s adoption of the one-child policy in 1979 gave parents only one chance to bear that son. With the invention of ultrasound in the early ’80s, sex-selective abortions became possible for the first time, and many women pregnant with baby girls opted to abort them. Women who did not have access to abortions resorted to infanticide. This willingness to abort or kill a female, if necessary, prompted the gender gap to grow. “In general, there...
...Keely and Du. No play was more topical than pseudonymous Jane Martin's what-if about right- to-life extremists kidnapping a pregnant woman and holding her until it is too late to abort. The Actors Theatre of Louisville production, also seen at Hartford Stage, subtly traced the evolving bond between the streetwise captive (Julie Boyd) and a captor (a superb Anne Pitoniak...
...wanted to reduce crime you could--if that were your sole purpose--you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." WILLIAM BENNETT, former U.S. Education Secretary, now a syndicated talk-show host. He added that it would be an "impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down...
...provincial meeting last year, Linyi officials were castigated for having the highest rate of extra births in all of Shandong, according to lawyers familiar with the situation. The dressing-down galvanized what appears to be one of the most brutal mass sterilization and abortion campaigns in years. Starting in March, family-planning officials in Linyi's nine counties and three districts trawled villages, looking to force women pregnant with illegal children to abort, and to sterilize those who already had the maximum allotment of children under the local family-planning policy. According to that regulation, which exists in a similar...