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It’s hard to miss Harvard Right to Life’s updated ‘Natalie’ posters, which are now printed in color and depict a growing fetus, already in its eleventh week. This week, we’re told, the fetus has acquired finger and toe-prints. The message behind the posters is clear—fetuses develop during gestation, becoming increasingly “human-like” until the ninth month when they, well, look just exactly like a newborn baby...
...basics of human ontogeny. We learned this stuff in elementary school. And yet the presentation of photos seems to imply that those who support a woman’s right to an abortion are fundamentally unclear on the concept of pregnancy, and operate under the ridiculous assumption that a fetus is nothing at all like a human, or that babies materialize, fully formed, nine months after conception. Perhaps if a woman can be made to realize that the baby inside of her has proto-organs and fingerprints, then she will drastically reconsider her position on abortion...
...late-term procedure they call partial-birth abortion passed (as it has been twice already) and signed into law (President Bill Clinton vetoed it both times). But G.O.P. strategists concede it is unlikely that other measures--like a bill to make it a separate crime to injure a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman or legislation making it illegal to evade state parent-notification laws by taking a minor across state lines--will become priorities for the President or get through the closely divided Senate. "If all they can muster is the elimination of one abortion method, that...
FETAL HEARTS In a surgical first, doctors fixed a deadly heart-valve defect in a 5-month-old fetus. Guided by ultrasound, they angled a needle-thin catheter into the aortic valve, a spot one-eighth of an inch in diameter in a beating heart the size of a grape. A minuscule balloon was then inflated to enlarge the constricted valve, which had been obstructing the flow of blood to the body. Eleven weeks later, doctors induced early labor, anticipating the need for another operation, but the repair job had worked so well that the 5-lb. 8-oz. healthy...
Arguments that support abortion rights take as a given that a fetus is not a person. HRL takes the opposite position. While our opponents find a fetus’ lack of personhood obvious and try to squelch debate on the topic by focusing exclusively on the rights of a mother, we think fetal personhood is a question that needs to be carefully examined by voters (the target audience for the postering campaign) in order for them to make an informed voting decision. Consideration of fetal personhood is also important to any woman considering aborting a fetus. Our posters seek...