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However, the slogan’s incorporation of the word “choice” was indisputably ingenious. In the stale abortion debate, the questions are always framed the same way: when does life begin, what role should the government play, and what are the rights of the fetus versus those of the mother. The posters reconfigure the issue entirely. Just like Bill Clinton signing the Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform bill, HRL is sweeping abortion-rights advocates’ twin foundations—the logic of choice and women’s interests—out from...
Last year, HRL’s campus posters depicted a fictional fetus, “Natalie,” and tracked her development in the womb, accompanied by the Dr. Seuss slogan, “A person’s a person no matter how small.” The Natalie posters were repeatedly torn down. “We got a lot of criticism last spring,” says former HRL president Paul C. Schultz ’03-’04, also a Crimson editor. “You know, ‘they?...
...detainee was suspected of dealings with South Koreans or Chinese. Ryu remembers a woman six months pregnant arriving at the camp. The baby's father was Chinese. Four guards grabbed the woman's limbs and threw her toward the ceiling over and over until the woman aborted the fetus. Ryu helped clean up the blood afterwards. "The guards said they hated Chinese babies," says Ryu. "The North Koreans hate the Chinese now, because they are rich and betrayed socialism...
...that is true, why go through the exercise? For one thing, social conservatives feel that passing the bill--which prohibits certain abortions after partial delivery of the fetus--will give a needed boost to Bush's conservative base. But there may be another calculation. By passing a measure that seems likely to be struck down by the current court, they are increasing pressure on the President to nominate a strongly antiabortion candidate for the next Supreme Court vacancy--particularly if it's the seat of Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority in 2000. "All it would take...
Essentially, The Crimson Staff opposes a bill that makes it illegal to deliver a living fetus with the specific intent to euthanize...