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...sounds like the sort of remedy a witch doctor might dream up: take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
RODNEY BROOKS GUSHES LIKE A first-time parent about the things his baby can do. "It sits there waving its arm around, watching its arm, reaching for things," he says. These are pretty standard tricks for newborn humans, of course, but then Brooks' "baby" (nicknamed Cog) isn't exactly human. It's a vaguely person-shaped concoction of metal, plastic and silicon, with cameras where its eyes should be and eight 32-bit microprocessors for a brain. Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world the way babies do, programming and reprogramming itself through...
...persuasive defense of the position supporting abortion rights must focus on explaining the reasons that the young fetus does not have the same right to life possessed by the older fetus and the newborn baby. The editorial should have explored developmental differences between the first-trimester fetus and the third-trimester fetus, arguing that such differences create a relevant distinction between the two beings. Does consciousness, a heartbeat or something else confer rights upon the older fetus? This is the issue at the core of the abortion debate. --John Bronsteen...
...primary reason we object to third-trimester abortions is not that they present added danger to the mother but instead that we believe the older fetus has a right to life comparabale to that of a newborn baby. If a young fetus is morally equivalent to an older fetus, then the arguments about privacy, rape, retardation and the mother's right to choose do not provide adequate justification for abortion. If the young fetus is a rights-bearing person, then the staff's points are outweighted; if the young fetus is not a rights-bearing person, then the staff...
...page eight, we see this statement in bold type: "Every year over two million requests for adoption go unsatisfied." Assuming this figure is true, these are requests for newborn, healthy, white children. If the Human Life Alliance believes that each life is precious, and each human life is "a lot of love," why doesn't it have a campaign to encourage other anti-abortion adherents to adopt the non-white babies and the six-, 10- and 15-year-olds who need love and a home? No such literature encouraging people to adopt was included in the magazine...