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...Timothy Ley of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Hematology Branch. The scientists speculate that, basically, the drug works by stripping genes of chemicals that have repressed their activity, allowing them to switch on again. The genes affected are those that produce hemoglobin for the developing fetus. These fetal genes turn off around birth as other genes take over to produce hemoglobin for human life outside the womb. Scientists still do not know why there are two sets of genes for making hemoglobin...
...high cross on a podium draped in white and yellow papal bunting, the Pontiff put forward in exceptionally strong terms his conservative position on marriage and the family. The Socialists have proposed legalizing abortion in cases where the mother's life is endangered or the fetus appears abnormal. Said John Paul II: "The murder of an innocent never can be legitimized." Turning to the controversy over state support for church schools, the Pope strongly defended the right of Catholic parents to control the education of their children...
...John C. Willkie, speaking for the right-to-life group, asserted that life is present the first day after conception, and that only abortion is equal to killing a human being. He illustrated his points with statistical graphs, a taped recording of the heartbeat of a fetus, and graphic slides of aborted features...
...according to her attorney, who says having her own child has always been one of the psychologist's major desires. If Perry's facts are right, it's dead wrong that Atkinson--who is 53 and married for 30 years--could get away with duping Perry into aborting her fetus, all the while knowing he'd never keep his pledge to impregnate her again...
Last August the body of Rebecca Heath was found near La Grange, Ga., slumped behind the steering wheel of her family's Oldsmobile. The car had smashed into a small tree, and at first it appeared that she, and the nine-month fetus she was carrying, had died in an auto accident. X rays revealed, however, that her right eyelid had been closed over a bullet hole made by a .32-cal. slug as it was fired into her brain. Investigators in La Grange then built a case of murder-for-hire against her husband Larry, his girlfriend Denise...