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...nothing else, Barney will forever be remembered as the man who taught us the word cremaster, which is the muscle that raises or lowers the testicles in response to warmth, cold or whatever other stimuli. His great preoccupation is the stage of fetal development during the first eight weeks of gestation, when the embryo has not yet been differentiated as male or female. As obsessions go, this might not be one you would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles...
...horrifying to realize that because of one Supreme Court case, the fetal holocaust is hidden behind misleading euphemisms. Instead of saying that we murder unborn children, Roe has enabled us to say that we “abort fetuses” at the rate of 4,400 a day. The lady next door would never pay an abortionist to murder her unborn son. All she did was eliminate the “product of conception” because she did not want to subject her inconvenient offspring to an impoverished life. The legacy of Roe vs. Wade makes her decision...
...push many of its abortion actions under the radar, where they will not be noticed by moderate women voters. True, Bush made headlines with his nomination of the staunchly evangelical, antiabortion John Ashcroft for Attorney General and the decision not to provide taxpayer funds to develop additional fetal-stem-cell lines for medical research. But other moves barely made a ripple by comparison. A year ago, the Administration filed a brief supporting Ohio's partial-birth-abortion ban in an appellate court (not waiting, as it normally would, for the case to hit the Supreme Court). A few months later...
...abortion, activists have taken up the fight state by state, measure by measure. In the past seven years, 335 new restrictions have been put on the books around the country, according to NARAL. Most common are parent-notification laws, required waiting periods, and state-mandated lectures and literature about fetal development and alternatives to abortion such as adoption. In Alabama, women have to get sonograms before they can end their pregnancies. While a few states such as California have liberalized their laws, the trend is very much in the other direction...
...After thalidomide's catastrophic debut, scientists found that the deformities occurred because the drug prevented the formation of new blood vessels. This, in turn, prevented normal fetal development. Now several British research groups are exploring how thalidomide can be used to stop blood vessels forming in and around tumors. Kill the formation of new vessels, they reason, and you kill the tumor. Recent studies into thalidomide treatment of some of the most intractable cancers - lung and pancreatic cancer and multiple myeloma - show promising results. Thalidomide has "three exciting properties to home in on: it can inhibit tumors directly, activate...