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...addition, Sweeney points out that humans are exposed to small amounts of fluorine found naturally in the environment. "We get it in our food, even in utero the fetus is exposed to small amount of fluorides. Fluorine in the drinking water at a concentration of one part per million (ppm) is no new material to our bodies," he says...
...physical cruelty, represent a realization by the upperclassmen that he too was once ignorant and helpless. He says we should keep in mind that "being a freshman for nine months is a stage we all have to go through on the way to adulthood, much like being a fetus before you can be born...
...Medicaid funds for abortions that is somewhat more liberal than the bill originally passed by the House: instead of banning funds for abortions except where the mother's life is endangered, it would permit such payments for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and where the mother or fetus would suffer "serious, permanent health damage...
Neither side in the abortion debate can claim to have positive knowledge of whether or not abortion constitutes the taking of a life. Yet a real biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...
...early, Trivers thinks, that the action may actually begin before birth. He believes there are "chemical tactics" that the fetus uses on the mother to increase its size and fitness while still in the womb. Even more surprising is Trivers' theory (for which he admits there is yet no evidence) of genetic conflict between egg and sperm before conception: under some conditions, the egg may try to repel sperm with female-producing X chromosomes in order to be fertilized into a boy rather than a girl...