Word: incest
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Community and family are both competing concerns to absolute freedom. Over 90 percent of abortions are performed simply because the mother does not want the child, while only I percent result from rape or incest, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Society must consider, then, whether abortion contributes to the breakdown of the family, lack of personal responsibility and diminished overall respect for life. If so, then freedom of choice need not trump cries for regulation...
...between a dead baby or a live baby." What about a dead mother or a live mother? For instance, pregnancy can be dangerous for diabetic women, since a side effect can be a diabetic coma. But the alliance disallows all instances of abortion, even in cases of rape or incest...
...points out that in the 1990 Cruzan case, the Supreme Court kept a comatose Nancy Cruzan on life support, though her parents protested that she would have opposed it. Annas recommends similar skepticism here: "Even people who are fervently pro-life," he says, "[sometimes] make exceptions for rape and incest." Since the pregnancy was "not her project," says Annas, making the woman give birth--which carries medical risks--constitutes an "abuse." Other experts worry about how such bizarre origins might affect a child...
...bought off. The conservatives had added three antiabortion amendments to the bill in committee; the moderates had responded by insisting on two of their own, restoring federal money for family planning programs and requiring states to provide funding for low-income women's abortions in cases of rape or incest...
...where they usually held their weekly Bible class, and took turns reading Scripture and praying, sometimes holding hands. They finally told their leaders they would go along with the family-planning money and vote for the bill. Now Gingrich needed the moderates to cede ground over the rape and incest question. "This is a time when the American people are looking at what we are doing," he told them. Did they want to go home losers...