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...only believe that abortion is immoral, they believe it is murder. That puts the debate in a whole new arena. Now, rather than being an issue of one group trying to impose it morality on others, the whole debate biols down to one central question: is the fetus a life...
...there is no empirical way to resolve the dilemma of the fetus. Our laws are, at root, based on societal morals, and those morals offer the only solution to the question. And slowly, very slowly, the country is reaching a conclusion...
...Everyone knows that a woman who smokes during pregnancy may harm the fetus. It now appears that secondhand smoke can do the same. In tests on newborns, those whose mothers worked or lived with smokers had twice the level of nicotine-related compounds in their system as those whose mothers lived in a smoke-free setting...
...reason for the correlation between narrow face width and shyness is unclear. High levels of the stress hormone cortisol may affect both timidity and facial shape, Arcus said. Stress to the fetus in the maternal uterine and hereditary factors are other potential causes...
...hint that Edvard Munch's stolen masterpiece, The Scream, may be returned came last week from a Norwegian antiabortion activist. The Rev. Borre Knudsen said the painting may be returned if local television broadcasts The Silent Scream -- a film that shows a fetus being aborted. Knudsen refused to say whether his organization was actually involved in the theft, which took place on the opening day of the Lillehammer Games...