Word: ashley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Shockley debated Ashley Montague, a retired Rutgers professor of anthropology, inside Princeton's McCosh Hall, 400 protesters marched outside and hanged and burned him in effigy...
...picturesque 90-acre pond. Too late he found out that the pond is a town water source; every summer it is drained right down to its muddy bottom, and the state forbids swimming or boating at any time. The doctor is trying to unload the land. Another example: Ashley T. Murphy, a California builder, got design approval for a $9,000,000 apartment complex in Oceanside...
...only is the fetus not truly human, but according to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, neither is the newborn, until molded by social and cultural influences. Presumably then we may take the life of the newborn any time before this molding is complete. After how much molding? One hour? One week? One year...
Most behavioral scientists, however, do not believe that viability marks the beginning of humanity. In their view, a fetus is not a person but a coherent system of unrealized capacities, and humanity is "an achievement, not an endowment." Anthropologist Ashley Montagu concurs, arguing that the embryo, fetus and newborn do not become truly human until molded by social and cultural influences after birth...
...Christmas, the story was frontpage news in nearly every daily in the country, and Britons began to raise a storm of protest. In Parliament, Labor's Ashley, who is chairman of an all-party Parliamentary Group on Disablement (and is totally deaf himself), declared: "There are a thousand excuses why these children should receive no money and every single excuse has been scavenged by this company throughout the last decade...