Word: fetuses
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...delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...
CELLS FROM THE HUMAN FETUS, HARVESTED FROM elective abortions, have shown promise as a source of therapy for many incurable diseases. But four years ago, the Reagan Administration banned the use of federal funds for fetal-cell research, arguing that the practice would legitimize abortion...
...some places they won't be able to. naral predicts that 13 states will ban abortion outright, though typically with exceptions for the so-called hard cases: when the life of the mother is at risk, the fetus is seriously deformed or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Other states are likely to be satisfied with a raft of new restrictions, such as 24-hour waiting periods and laws requiring clinics to be equipped as hospitals, which would drive up prices. Parental notification laws, already in place in 18 states, will be even more widely adopted, posing problems...
...same two decades, while pro-lifers have waved pictures of the developing fetus, there were no more new images of women victimized by illegal abortions. In the years to come, those pictures, and the desolate realities they represent, are sure to reappear. It was harsh experience that led to the climate of opinion that welcomed Roe. Will it take harsh experience again to sort out the national will on abortion once...
...mattered was the level of shock theater. Some abortion-rights advocates spat, punched, screamed unprintable things and dropped cigarette ashes on their opponents. Between their prayers, some Operation Rescue forces returned the insults, and on Tuesday produced the ultimate visual ammunition: Schenck displayed with outstretched arms a 20-week fetus to pro-choice hecklers, a doll-like apparition that the minister said was aborted but which the county medical . examiner later said was stillborn. All this made the sheriff of Erie County, Thomas Higgins, 62, feel nostalgic about the antiwar demonstrations of the '60s. "The humor is not there anymore...