Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are very few guarantees in this life: when one eats, one risks getting fat; when one drives, one risks accidents; when one has sex, one risks pregnancy. Inconvenient timing is not a good excuse for ending the life of a fetus...
After the initial shock, Brandon decides he is still in love. They frolic in amusement parks, get caught in a spring shower and just sit around feeling the fetus kick. Their love grows stronger...
When is a child a child? Clergymen, physicians and legal experts have disagreed on the precise moment when an unborn fetus becomes an independent life. In its abortion decision last January, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a state may not protect a fetus until it becomes "viable," that is, after approximately seven months in the womb. In 18 states, however, authorities have decided that a pregnant woman can receive welfare payments for her unborn child, just as for any other child, because Congress specified that the Social Security Act was meant to encourage "continuing prenatal care and protection...
...outcry over experimentation on aborted human fetuses [July 30], which by the fact of having been aborted are not considered to be human beings, strikes me as ridiculous. If our society has decided that a human fetus is no more than a scrap of tissue attached to a woman's body, and therefore sanctions its removal at her whim, then surely it is foolish to become outraged by experiments performed on it, any more than it makes sense to become outraged about an experiment performed on an excised tumor...
...amount of "humanity" possessed by a fetus is sufficient to ban experiments on it, why isn't it sufficient to prevent its being killed...