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Take an abortion clinic. Draw some protesters around it. Someone holding a sign with a fetus on it. Someone else, perhaps, holding a real fetus...
Aware of the risk, both mothers chose to have amniocentesis after becoming pregnant again last fall. The test results showed that neither fetus was producing ADA and that the babies would have SCID. It was then that Dr. Diane Wara, the pediatric immunologist who had treated the Rigginses' other child, suggested the stem-cell trial. Lori Riggins was easily convinced. "You only get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get large amounts of stem cells," she says. "That's at birth, and we didn't want to pass up that chance...
...clinic door. Her advice was peppy pop psychology: Be well groomed. Don't shout or intimidate. Recite the alternatives to abortion, and be prepared to deliver on any of them, including cash, immediately. If the subject seems to be wavering, use a plastic model of a fetus at 10 to 12 weeks to sell her on life...
...employs the imagery of water: the river that runs past his lows home. a different stream every day; the rhythm of its droughts and floods, in tune with Offutt's changing perspectives on his unborn child, and above all, the still waters of the amnion that houses the fetus. The novel reaches its climax in a narrative juxtaposition; Offutt braves a surprisingly mild hurricane in Florida as his wife's water breaks and his son is born, In both cases, Offutt's anxieties prove unfounded...
Rather than being stigmatized as intrusive and oppressive moralists, pro-life activists should be respected for their recognition of the fact that abortion is not just a private matter between a woman and her doctor, but a social issue involving the society that required the death of her fetus as the price of her survival, the culture that made her think this was the only option, and the sanctity of life...