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...unassuming though they are, they connote other, more explosive terms: abortion and murder, morality and privacy, the right to life and the right to choose. Attached to those words are some of the most intractable passions in American life. Writing about medical advances that improve the chances for a fetus to survive outside the womb, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor once declared that the 1973 decision was "on a collision course with itself." Sixteen years after Roe obliged all 50 states to legalize abortion, the nation is on a political collision course...
Barbara Ehrenreich, a writer and chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, said the legalization of abortion should not depend on the rights of the fetus but on the rights of the woman...
...They try and promote respect for the fetus asa human being and traditional family values," saysLaw, adding that the briefs "develop the samethemes over and over again...
...attachment of a moral value to the fetusbecame a central argument against the legalizationof abortion in the 1960s and 1970s. "The notion ofwhat a fetus is...is a variable concept,"Walkowitz says...
...aborted fetuses for medical purposes is a promising but highly controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...