Word: fetus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...approach has led him in some controversial directions. Posner famously suggested that the adoption system might be improved by allowing babies to be sold. And he has written that whether abortion should be banned can be evaluated by some mathematical formula in which V is the value of a fetus' life and N is the average number of abortions that would be performed without...
...knock repeatedly before the door is unlocked for us. Once inside, I instantly pounce on Max Hirsch, the birthday boy, who, though the party seems to be at a subdued level, is anticipating much "busting of asses" on the dance floor. His friend agrees, "The night is but a fetus; I am predicting that later on people will be busting multiple asses...
Turns out there are still some things you just can't get away with. Conservative cyberjournalist Matt Drudge found that out Thursday when Fox canceled his weekly political gossip show. The problems began when the channel's executives wouldn't allow him to show a photo of a fetus receiving surgery. Drudge says the graphic photo was meant to buttress his pro-life stance, but the channel heads felt it was being used out of context. When Drudge missed his show in protest, he was handed his walking papers...
...Louise, the surviving hospital, is taking over." But the hard-line stance could backfire. Last year in Manchester, N.H., the Catholic Medical Center, which had recently merged with another local hospital, refused to perform an emergency abortion on a woman in danger of prematurely delivering a 14-week fetus--even though her doctor had determined that she was at risk for a lethal infection. The incident generated so much outrage that the hospital with which it had merged sought and won a divorce...
...delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade...