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This last question in particular has created a furor. Protestant churches have argued that the eggs should not be artificially maintained, but thawed and allowed to die naturally. Australian right-to-life groups, the Roman Catholic Church and some Orthodox Jewish leaders have protested that this would violate the sanctity of life. Instead, they believe the cells should be implanted in volunteer surrogate mothers...
Voter reaction to a candidate's choice for Veep can be measurably negative. The revelation in 1972 that George McGovern's little-known running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had undergone electroshock therapy doomed whatever tiny chance of success the Democrats had. In the wake of the furor, which resulted in Eagleton's being replaced by Sargent Shriver, one poll showed confidence in McGovern plummeting by 25%. In 1952 Richard Nixon's alleged association with a political slush fund became an embarrassment for Dwight Eisenhower, though not a fatal one. More recently, Senator Robert Dole was judged...
...editorial board, whose emotionally charged commentary reflected the tensions of the city's racially polarized politics; by her own hand (an overdose of pills), after bouts of depression brought on at least in part, friends said, by the strain of being a role model and by the furor resulting from an article she wrote for the Washington Post last summer titled "How Chicago Taught Me to Hate Whites," which prompted the city council to consider demanding an apology; in Chicago...
...avoiding controversial planks "that can be used against us." She explained that specific legislation would not be mentioned by name, and cited "H J Res 1" as an example. The innocuous-sounding bill turned out to be the Equal Rights Amendment, and word of its planned omission caused a furor among women's groups. Ferraro's office was forced to issue a retraction that same afternoon...
...Capitol Hill, the Reagan Administration was engaged in some belated fence mending with Congress following the furor raised three weeks ago by legislators who charged that they had been inadequately briefed on the minings. In two hours of closed-door hearings, CIA Director William Casey conceded that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had not been "adequately informed in a timely manner." Casey assured Senators that the mining operation had been halted, and that both the Senate and House intelligence committees would be notified of any similar operations in the future. His efforts mollified Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...