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Unsurprisingly, accounts of expensive residences becoming kindling, or descriptions of boots bursting into flame as perspiring Icelanders combat the creep of lava that threatens their fishing village, are fundamentally more dramatic than the mysterious workings of southern Louisiana hydrology. Yet all three elemental battles recounted by the masterly McPhee are unified by the most uncontrolled and stubborn of all forces: human nature...
Cases like the Yorks' are bound to multiply. The nation's population of frozen embryos exceeds 4,000, and state laws governing their use are often in conflict with one another or at odds with reality. In Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association...
Many ethicists have problems with the Louisiana law, which was designed with the laudable goal of protecting the embryo from experimental misuse or casual destruction. For example, does the statute's definition of the zygote as a juridical person mean that it has inheritance rights? Many secular experts argue that an embryo need not have the protection accorded human life until the fetus begins to take on recognizable features -- roughly, at the sixth week of pregnancy. But because of its human potential, these ethicists say, the frozen embryo should not be treated as mere tissue. Thus they see the donation...
...know, the Supreme Court's recent decision on flag-burning has touched off quite a reaction across the nation. Here in Louisiana, where the Supreme Court has never been particularly well-liked, folks have been down-right offensive...
...weeks to come, pro-life groups will go on the offensive in such states as Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, South Carolina, Michigan and, of course, Missouri, where strong grass-roots organizations already exist and the legislatures are larded with sympathetic officials. Pro- lifers will attempt to go well beyond the provisions in the Missouri statute. In some states bills may be introduced that would make a woman seeking an abortion listen to the fetal heartbeat and look at pictures of a fetus at the same level of development as hers...