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...stunned by the allegations that he may have lived a secret life. Chris Bales, a former Gonzaga law professor who taught Stevens criminal law, characterized him as a "gentle fugitive" who posed no threat to society when he was arrested last winter. Stevens had worked in Gonzaga's law clinic, helping low-income clients...
...ethicist Thomas Shannon sees it, "The application of in vitro fertilization has moved almost overnight from the lab to the clinic." Shannon, who teaches at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, might have added, and into the law courts as well. Like many other modern technological wonders, the artificial union of sperm and ovum to form a zygote, which is then frozen for eventual implantation in a woman's womb, has gone from the near miraculous to the almost mundane -- and ultimately to the moral dilemma. One current legal case addresses two of the key ethical questions raised by in vitro...
...meet a burden she considers to be undue. Among those that have passed O'Connor's standard: requiring abortions to be performed in hospitals, which makes them more costly and time consuming; imposing waiting periods that force women who may live far away from a clinic to make return trips; mandatory testing to determine viability...
...court's ruling has limited practical impact: any woman can still legally get an abortion, even in Missouri. The Truman Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Missouri hospital in Columbia immediately stopped performing abortions, since they receive public funds. But Reproductive Health Services, a St. Louis clinic that challenged the Missouri law in the high court, and other private facilities remain open. The closing of publicly subsidized facilities could be construed as a back-door way to deny otherwise permissible abortions to the poor. No restrictions are ever likely to thwart the ability of the well...
...political compromise could deal with subsidiary issues, such as clinic standards and parental-notification requirements, on their own merits, whereas they have until now usually been cynical attempts to sneak around Roe's absolute constitutional ban. On the one side issue pro-choicers have generally lost -- government funding of abortions for poor women -- they might even find the opposition more accommodating once the general issue is open for debate and compromise. Right-to-life absolutists will find themselves isolated. Appeals to fairness, not to mention more cynical arguments regarding the cost to society of poor women having unwanted babies, will...