Word: fetuses
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...this aspect of their position against the separation takes a page from the abortion rights handbooks. The pro-choice stance, which is theoretically anathema to these parents' beliefs, holds that if a pregnant woman feels unable to care for a child, she should not be required to carry the fetus to term. Jodie and Mary's parents argue against an ostensibly life-saving procedure because they are worried that saving one child could result in severe financial and emotional hardship for the family. In their minds, it's better for both children to die than for one to live - because...
Conjoined twins are rare, occurring once in 50,000 to 100,000 births. They happen when the fertilized egg starts splitting into twins but the process stalls, leaving a partly separated embryo that matures into a conjoined fetus. Many are aborted or stillborn. Surgical separations often fail, depending on how many organs are shared. At a leading U.S. center for this work, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 14 sets of twins have been separated since 1957. Seventeen children survived, and both twins lived in seven cases...
...place to begin to agree is before conception. The abortion debate begins at that instant--no conception, no fetus to be aborted and hence no debate over the rights of the unborn. (Some religious groups do press for protection even of the unconceived and protest the use of contraceptives; I challenge them to accept a compromise on acceptance of contraception as essential to reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and hence potential abortions...
...bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...there is an issue in play here that seems to have been ignored: Al Gore was right. He insisted on keeping the ultimate choice available to a woman, and refused to consider an alternative that would effectively render the fetus a ward of the state even against the will of the mother. The vice president clung to a fundamental tenet of the pro-choice movement: Until a woman gives birth, the burgeoning existence inside her must belong absolutely to her. No prison guard, and certainly no legislator, should be able to take away that autonomy...