Word: birthed
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...most political activists, maneuvering a bill through the twists and turns of Congress is the ultimate act. But for antiabortion activists, last week's overwhelming vote in the House to ban partial-birth abortions was merely a sideshow. They knew President Clinton would veto the bill--and on Friday he did, effectively putting off any more debate until next session. More important, they knew there is another battlefield--statehouses across the country--where, time after time, they are winning the fight...
This year alone, 15 states have outlawed a rarely used procedure known politically as partial-birth abortion and described medically as "intact dilation and extraction." To pro-choice groups, the new laws in states from Rhode Island to Montana represent an alarming challenge to the fundamental principles set down by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. "The antiabortion movement has in one sense already won," says Janet Benshoof, president of the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy, which is challenging nine of the new laws in court...
...ticking of a woman's biological clock just got a lot quieter with the first known birth in the U.S. conceived from a frozen egg. It may stop altogether if turns out doctors can replicate a new technique that freezes a woman's eggs without rupturing the cells. A few other researchers worldwide had announced similar results over the past decade, but no one had successfully been able to repeat the experiment. If the procedure invented at Atlanta's Reproductive Biology Associates clinic holds up, women could freeze eggs while in their early twenties, when they are the most fertile...
Francis Godwin, one of the accused students, showed the driver an out-of-state license with an altered birth date Friday to obtain the keg, said Michael Duffy, head of the office of Consumer Affairs. But the license had the word "minor" stamped on it, he said...
...that began to change 15 years ago at a meeting at Harvard with the birth of Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)--a consortium of international seismic research stations funded by the National Science Foundation...