Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Beginning. Roman Catholic leaders are speaking out against the proposed laws with uncommon vigor and even bitterness. Catholic moral theologians point out that abortion and infanticide have been flatly condemned by the church since its earliest years. Today most Catholic scholars still agree that the fetus is a human life from the very instant of conception; to destroy it willfully, therefore, is to commit an act analogous to murder.* Denouncing the proposed Arizona reform, Tucson's Bishop Francis J. Green declared: "Traditionally, it has been the responsibility of the state to protect life. This law introduces...
...full of paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment, is a visual bore. But Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it is somehow amusing. Kienholz's latest exhibit, an abortionist's chair, complete with curette, bloody rags and fetus, has some horrid documentary interest, even if it need not be confused with El Greco's best work. Tony Smith's huge constructions have a presence (even if they are ordered by phone) that a pile of concrete blocks by Carl Andre have not. Something called Liaison, by John...
...late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert a needle through the mother's abdomen to extract a sample of the amniotic fluid in which the fetus is floating. That sample may help to determine the severity of the Rh problem...
...only by Mark's health but by the fact that Bonnie's kidney seemed to perform better than ever while she was pregnant. It is widely assumed that a pregnant woman somehow suppresses some of her rejection mechanism so that she can carry the partially foreign fetus. If so, there is a good chance that she may be less likely to reject other intruders. Perhaps pregnancy, along with its problems, offers a small advantage to kidney-transplant patients...
...also true that the script struggles loyally to endow Alfie with humor and humanity. After the friend's wife undergoes an abortion-a scene that takes place off-camera but was only with reluctance approved by the Valenti office-Alfie stares in horror at the unseen fetus of his unborn son. The audience is clearly expected to conclude that Alfie is sensitive, after all, because he doesn't like to see a fetus on his kitchen table...