Word: abortment
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...moon within the decade was well focused and lavishly financed. But Bush offered no price tag and no precise timetable for the "journey into tomorrow" that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Given the parlous state of NASA's meager funding and morale nowadays, that journey could abort before it takes off. Some congressional Democrats wonder where the money will come from. Warned House majority leader Richard Gephardt, in a critique of Bush's speech that reflected the view of many of his fellow Democrats: "There's no such thing as a free launch...
...conflict with one another or at odds with reality. In Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association of Tissue Banks is drafting rules for the handling and disposition of frozen embryos...
...student director's Academy Award for his thesis, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, about a Brooklyn barber who is torn between legitimacy and petty crime. After graduation, he began work on a drama about a young black bicycle messenger but was forced to abort the project when financing fell apart. Though he says it was the most painful period in his career, the resilient director turned around and started working on another script. Using some of the same actors, he filmed She's Gotta Have It in a rented restaurant attic over twelve days, editing...
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...