Word: infantalizing
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...name the scientists behind the first cloned house pet gave their creation, a shorthaired calico that is a genetic (though not a visual) duplicate of her biological mom. Because she is so seductively cute--pulling at the same heartstrings an infant human clone would invariably tug--she lays bare the emotional subtext that has so far been missing in the great cloning debate. It's one thing to argue the merits of cloning when you're talking about uncuddly sheep, mice, cattle, goats and pigs. It's quite another when the clone is practically sitting in your lap, mewing...
...Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, which provides food and prenatal services to low-income mothers and their babies, will see its funding rise to $4.8 billion. Research has shown that WIC lowers health care costs for low-income children. What’s more, over the last decade WIC has been able to serve an additional two million individuals without any extra cost to taxpayers by offering infant formula manufacturers exclusive rights to its market in return for discounted prices. The 8 percent increase that President Bush is proposing for WIC will allow the program to serve all eligible...
...offends you—too bad. When it comes to being “PC,” I’m not. The abortion rights faction no doubt will argue that the employment of “precious feet” pins (which depict, appropriately, a pair of infant feet) is nothing more than a form of sentimental propaganda, an attempt to appeal to the public’s infatuation with babies. This charge, however, is far from the truth...
...Precious feet” are symbolic of the advocacy of pro-lifers for the unborn. Furthermore, they serve to remind the public of the inevitable development of a fetus into a fully formed human infant. Finally, they represent a striking challenge to all women to truly demonstrate their power to choose by selecting virtue and intellectual honesty over a cowardly retreat from shame and adversity...
...that I know whooping cough numbers are up, I'll have to linger over the list of symptoms in that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...