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...What is most objectionable about Ms. Idelson's review is her reference to the pro-lifers' supposed "consistent disregard for the ultimate well-being of the mother or the fetus." Ms. Idelson is completely right in saying that the mother's "right" to an abortion and the fetus's right to life stand in contradiction my compliments to her for such a lucid observation. Simply put, anti-abortionists, for logical reasons, have chosen to favor the fetus's right over the mother's. To say, however, that we therefore "discount the concerns of the living" is an act of journalistic...
These sick acts, though disturbingly regular, can be explained as the work of a small, fanatic minority within the movement. What cannot be dismissed, however, is the right to lifers consistent disregard for the ultimate wellbeing of the mother or the fetus. The fetus "right to life" and the mother's right to an abortion (as guaranteed by the Supreme Court in its 1973 ruling) stand in irreconcilable opposition; in singlemindedly promoting the welfare of the unborn, anti-abortionists implicitly if not explicitly discount the concerns of the living. Women have historically sought abortions and in this country the practices...
...Prime Minister and other politicians believe that the Supreme Court might interpret unborn as meaning everything that precedes the stage in pregnancy when the fetus is capable of being born, roughly the 28th week of pregnancy, thus legally permitting at least some abortions where none were allowed before...
...embryo. "It's like vacuuming a shag rug; you get about half a dozen villi," explains Dr. Laird Jackson of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, which has helped pioneer the technique in the U.S. Since the tiny chorion sample is composed of the same cells as the fetus, genetic defects present in the child should show up in laboratory analysis...
...psychologist to record a baby's wriggling and demonstrate that it often moves in rhythm with its mother's voice. At the most complex levels, surgeons at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago can diagnose prenatal hydrocephalus (a brain-damaging excess of cerebrospinal fluid) in a fetus, then introduce a plastic tube into the mother's uterus and into the fetus' head to drain off the surplus fluid inside its brain. Guiding many of these technological innovations is the ubiquitous computer, which can synthesize a mother's voice as easily as it can measure...