Word: howards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Risa and Steven York entered an in vitro fertilization program operated by the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va. But three implants failed. The Yorks, who last year moved from New Jersey to California, asked the institute to ship their frozen embryo to a comparable facility at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital, where Dr. Richard Marrs was prepared to supervise its implantation. Much to the couple's surprise, Jones refused, arguing that the consent agreement signed by the Yorks gave them no rights to the embryo outside his institute's jurisdiction. In effect, Jones contended...
...stopping anyone who has anything to do with pregnancy from getting involved." The Roman Catholic Church, in company with many conservative Protestant groups, opposes all in vitro fertilization. Nonetheless, the Yorks have received moral support in their suit from the Right to Life League of Southern California. "Howard Jones has no rights in this matter," says president Susan Carpenter McMillan. "He's playing God -- in effect saying 'I created this life, so I can decide what to do with it.' But he only provided the tools, not the materials...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...beneath the arrogance he wears like a badge of honor is the deeper, profound racial anger that fueled Do the Right Thing. "Racism usually erodes self-confidence. It seems to have triggered his," observes actress Ruby Dee, who plays Mother Sister in Do the Right Thing. The Howard Beach incident, in which a black man died after being chased onto a freeway by a white mob -- an expression in Lee's mind of a double standard inflicted on blacks -- inspired the film. Even the controversy that erupted over his use at the end of the film of a Malcolm...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Lisa Beyer, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Christine Gorman, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...