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QUOTE OF NOTE: "This election is about making sure that the world our children and grandchildren inherit from us is a world with all of the opportunity and freedom that they deserve. I want to pass them a torch that is still burning...
Hoping to inherit the mantle of retiring four-term Representative Lewis Payne, Goode is both a Democrat and a conservative populist: he is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-tobacco--and has fund-raising barbecues for a modest $5-a-plate...
...doctrine of original sin says that at birth we all inherit Adam's sinfulness. This is partly a claim about blame--it holds us accountable for Adam's sin even before we've done anything wrong--but it is also a claim about human nature; it says we are inclined to do wrong, that we have a hereditary dark side. As St. Augustine put it in the 5th century A.D.: After Adam sinned, our "soiled" and "corrupt" nature was "already present in the seed from which we were to spring...
...most extraordinary offshoots of in vitro research is a technique, offered to people carrying severe genetic diseases, that can ensure that their children will not inherit their defective genes. Couples in this situation are not technically infertile, but their options have been limited to an uncertain pregnancy or, if testing shows the presence of a defective gene, an abortion. Some people, opposed to abortion entirely, or unwilling to go through it again after one or more experiences, have decided never to have children...
...life-and-death concern: "Now that my partner and I are approaching old age, I don't want to have to resort to all kinds of legal subterfuge to ensure that what we have built together is not taken away. I want Don to be able to inherit my Social Security benefits if I die before he does. And I want to be covered by his medical retirement benefits. I simply want our waning years to be secure...