Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. "They connected," nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen. "They bonded. You could just see it. One girl got off the table and said, 'That's my baby...
...want someone who's going in there with a heart and compassion who'll talk reasonably and present the options." And, she adds, she would never, ever show graphic pictures or movies like The Silent Scream, the landmark 1984 video that presents an abortion being performed in which the fetus is portrayed as crying in pain. The women who come through her door, Wood says, "are traumatized enough already. Why would we do that? We're trying to be caretakers. I know how I'd respond if somebody did this in-your-face thing to me. I'd pull back...
...desire as well as their abilities to exercise self-control and thought. For example, one question asked respondents to evaluate whether a five-year-old girl would be more or less likely to feel pain when compared to a chimpanzee. The study used 13 different characters, including a fetus, an adult woman, a man in a persistent vegetative state, a frog, God, and a robot. Respondents said human adults possessed high amounts of both agency and experience. In contrast, while they said dogs ranked similarly to humans in terms of experience, they ranked low in agency. Interestingly, respondents?...
...Right to Life (HRL), the Harvard Republican Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, and the Harvard Salient all count her as an active member. Grizzle might be best known for spearheading HRL’s highly controversial Elena campaign, a series of anti-abortion posters that pictured a developing fetus speaking as a young girl. The posters came under fire on house e-mail lists and in conversations all over campus. Grizzle believes the controversy points to the success of the campaign: “It did exactly what I hoped which was to get people to talk about...
...worried that the offer of anesthesia might make women more likely to go through with an abortion. "The mother can believe she is making a benevolent choice, even as she simultaneously participates in a heinous act," he wrote on Christian Newswire. "I can hear it now. 'At least the fetus didn't feel pain...