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...after the new study linking homosexuality with heredity was released, I was asked several times if I possessed psychic powers. The play I wrote, The Twilight of the Golds, is the story of a family thrown into turmoil when a pregnant woman is told through genetic testing that her fetus will most likely be homosexual. "It's like The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island," people said. "How did you know to write about this a year and a half...
...without the potential good this new information can do in changing people's minds, the potential dangers are terrifying. Some may search for a "cure" or, in the more immediate future, consider aborting a fetus that is predicted to be gay. This is the scenario in The Twilight of the Golds, which I expected to remain in the realm of science fiction for much longer than it apparently will...
...will more than likely grow up uncared for. She has not taken her lumps quietly. Elders attacks her religious-right critics as "non-Christians" who harbor "slave-master mentalities." Last year Elders told an abortion-rights rally that abortion foes need to get over their "love affair with the fetus." Earlier this month on a CNBC call-in show, Elders was asked what she planned to do about crack- addicted women who sell sex to buy drugs, get pregnant and have crack- addicted babies. "That's a real problem," the pragmatic Elders replied. "I would hope that we would...
...miracle drug: the protesters disappear. So do the signs, the fetus. Why? Because the clinic, too, is gone, replaced by the privacy of thousands of anonymous doctors' offices. That, say some, is the elementary physics...
When she returns, she is required to sign a government form requesting the abortion. She must also sign a Roussel form that confirms her understanding that a malformed fetus might result if she does not see the abortion through to completion. (As yet no defects have been found in the small number of babies born to women known to have taken RU 486.) At that point, the woman is given three aspirin-like RU 486 tablets, each containing 200 mg of the drug. After swallowing the pills, she again goes home...