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...doubt that she is a woman. Sherri has androgen-insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition that affects prenatal development. All embryos start out with the rudiments of male and female reproductive systems. A sort of developmental tug-of-war ensues until, generally speaking, the male reproductive system predominates in XY fetuses and the female in XX fetuses. The external male genitalia will not take shape in an XY fetus, however, until after the embryonic testes form and begin to produce testosterone...
...occurs when a gene on the X chromosome prevents the fetus from responding to that prenatal testosterone. Because the genitalia cannot be masculinized, they assume a more female structure. But that's not all. In the complete form of AIS, the body cannot respond to testosterone at all and the baby develops as a female, although without a functioning reproductive system. When Sherri was 11, she was told that she could never bear children because she had been born with "twisted ovaries" that had to be removed when she was a baby. In fact, the "ovaries" were her testes...
Anti-abortion panelists’ arguments hinged on the rights of the unborn fetus, and the contention that life starts at conception...
...legality of abortion—or lack thereof—rests on an understanding of when life begins. “Before the birth, it is murder,” Moschella said. “Abortion doesn’t make [a woman] unpregnant, it simply kills the fetus...
However, the slogan’s incorporation of the word “choice” was indisputably ingenious. In the stale abortion debate, the questions are always framed the same way: when does life begin, what role should the government play, and what are the rights of the fetus versus those of the mother. The posters reconfigure the issue entirely. Just like Bill Clinton signing the Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform bill, HRL is sweeping abortion-rights advocates’ twin foundations—the logic of choice and women’s interests—out from...