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...wrong. In the beginning God created Eve," says Johns Hopkins Medical Psychologist John Money. What he means is that the basic tendency of the human fetus is to develop as a female. If the genes order the gonads to become testicles and put out the male hormone androgen, the embryo will turn into a boy; otherwise it becomes a girl. "You have to add something to get a male," Money notes. "Nature's first intention is to create a female...
...decision, the court said flatly, "We hold that a woman has a constitutional right of privacy under the Ninth and 14th Amendments to determine for herself whether to bear a child." In the early stages of gestation, the court decided, "a mother's right transcends that of the embryo...
Granted, Reuben is not a karate expert. But even his science is distorted to bolster his image as an honorary member of the Sisterhood. "Every human embryo starts out as female," Reuben asserts. It is the same nonsense fobbed off by Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, page 30), who claimed as her source not a geneticist but a woman psychoanalyst. The fallacious reasoning behind the claim is that since human fetuses start out without male genitalia. they are physically female. The fact is that sex is determined at the moment of fertilization by the combination of chromosomes contained in the sperm...
Doctors also see possibilities in artificial inovulation, a procedure in which an egg cell is taken directly from the ovaries, fertilized in a test tube and then reimplanted in the uterus. By carefully scrutinizing the developing embryo in the test tube, doctors could spot serious genetic deficiencies and decide not to reimplant it, thus avoiding an abortion later on. If the embryo is normal, it could even be reimplanted in the womb of a donor mother and carried to term there, enabling the woman either unable or unwilling to go through pregnancy to have children that were genetically...
...every living thing. According to Huebner, the virus, which he has labeled the "C particle," is a part of everyone's genetic heritage, a tiny bit of RNA that is passed vertically from one generation to another and perhaps helps normal development by causing the cells of an embryo to grow. The C particle should become inactive as the fetus matures; if it fails to do so, the result is the rapid cell growth that characterizes cancer...