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...authors suggested that the surge of maternal estrogen to the infant, which is correlated with higher birth weights, may be a factor that increases risk of breast cancer for the female fetus...
...company is working with the NIH to determine whether the vaccine would harm the fetus. The vaccine may possibly be used on teen-age girls, to give them antibody protection before they become pregnant...
...World," where abortion rights would be curtailed, assault weapons plentiful and--a cornerstone of his campaign--the income tax would be replaced by a regressive national sales tax. Jenkins, who made a name for himself in the legislature by sponsoring a "shoot-the-burglar" law and carrying a plastic fetus to abortion debates, made no attempt to temper his conservative views. He counted on the rising Republican tide in the state and strong support from groups such as the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America to put him over the top. Landrieu's win shows that even...
Moore uses satire to push his opponents' positions to their most extreme limits, and thus expose the ridiculousness of their thinking. Speaking of right-to-life activists, he noted that if a fetus was a human being, it might as well get a Social Security number, everyone should add nine months to their age, and abortion should warrant capital punishment. "Canadian Bacon," which mocks the American people's willingness to follow President Bush into the Gulf War, presents us with an American president who arbitrarily decides that Canada will be the U.S.'s new enemy, and accordingly declares...
ABORTION. House: Would you have voted for the bill to ban so-called partial-birth abortions, in which the doctor removes the fetus' brain tissue after bringing the fetus into the birth canal? Under the bill, doctors who perform the procedure could be subject to criminal and civil penalties. [H: HR1833. Passed, H vote: 288-139] Senate: Would you have voted for the amendment to a bill prescribing criminal and civil penalties for doctors who perform so-called partial-birth abortions? The amendment would have provided legal protections for doctors who used the procedure to protect the life or health...