Word: inheritability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both parents carry genes for diabetes, for example, the chances are one in four that their children will inherit an increased risk for developing the disease. If either parent actually suffers from diabetes, the odds are even worse. Members of one large South Dakota family afflicted with a rare degenerative nerve disease have been advised, for example, that the odds are 50-50 that any children they have will suffer loss of balance and coordination and die, probably of pneumonia, by age 45 (TIME...
...even more important technique enables physicians to examine the cells of the unborn only months after conception and to determine with accuracy whether or not the infant will inherit his parents' defective genes. The procedure is known as amniocentesis, from the Greek amnion (membrane) and kentesis (pricking); it is performed by inserting a long needle through the mother's abdomen and drawing off a small sample of the amniotic fluid, the amber liquid in which the fetus floats. Physicians then separate the fetal skin cells from the fluid and place the cells in a nutrient bath where they continue...
...Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have a child cloned from one of her own cells. The child would inherit all its mother's characteristics including, of course...
...Right-to-Life group, entered the case on behalf of the state's unborn children. Heffernan's brief argued that overturning the law would deprive the unborn of life without due process. He noted that since the 18th century courts have recognized the fetus' right to inherit or to share a trust, and that modern developments in tort law have recognized suits for injury on behalf of the fetus. But a federal court overturned the Illinois law as "unconstitutionally vague" because it did not clearly specify what acts were violations. There was a brief surge of abortions...
...most of us dealt with the young on the campuses today-either our children or our students-and we probably share the same mixed view of their undoubted ability, their stupid and dangerous excesses, and their sometimes prophetic vision. On their side, though, is time. They will, in fact, inherit the earth, or at least our chunk of it; they will, in fact, soon vote. And they would, undoubtedly, give allegiance to a President who did what I have just suggested. So would many of their compatriots in our restless Indochina armed forces. And so would the millions...