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...issue was abortion, and the fight was supposed to have been settled in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy until the fetus is presumably capable of "meaningful life outside the mother's womb." But as the passionate cries in Fountain Square showed, the battle is far from over. The rally capped a convention in which the forces opposed to abortion spent most of four days planning strategy for next year's elections and state legislative sessions. In heaping...
PROPHECY at least has a social conscience, pretending to explore the white man's physical and moral pollution of Indian lands in Maine. Methyl mercury, used to soak lumber, gets into the fish, which is later consumed by animals and humans. The poison primarily affects the fetus, causing nasty mutations, one of which--a huge, snorting, blood-soaked pig (or something)--menaces federal health investigator Robert Foxworth, his pregnant wife, Talia Shire, and assorted noble Indians and opportunistic lumber executives...
Some families thus choose not to have children at all. Others, hoping that the baby will be a girl, go ahead with a pregnancy. But once they learn through amniocentesis that the fetus is male, they will opt for an abortion. Even though there is a fifty-fifty chance that the boy will not be a hemophiliac, medicine has had no way of telling whether those odds would be in the parents' favor...
...needle, they withdraw a few drops of the baby's blood, which is analyzed by radioimmunoassay techniques for factor VIII. To date, investigators have used the experimental procedure on eight women, all of whom had family histories of severe hemophilia. In four cases the tests showed that the fetus carried almost none of the clotting factor. Abortions were performed; tests later confirmed that the fetuses had severe hemophilia. In the other four cases, because the tests revealed that the fetus was normal, the pregnancies continued, and three of the women have already given birth to healthy boys...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, Edelin's lawyer, said after the trial that his client was convicted because the jury was convicted that a fetus should be considered alive after it has been separated from the mother's placenta inside the womb...