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...only gape and exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis est (The way of the egghead is hard). He loved people and in his later years was one of New York's most inveterate partygoers; yet even when surrounded by admirers he somehow seemed lonely. He was a completely sophisticated citizen of the world...
...moment a female mammal is conceived - whether mouse, cat or woman - she has two X chromosomes, one each from father's sperm and mother's ovum. The presence of the pair of Xs, which are reproduced in all of her body's cells, is what makes her female. But each X chromosome packs many other chemically coded instructions for the body; if both a woman's Xs remained active throughout life, she would be flooded with a double quota of some blood-clotting factors, enzymes and other vital proteins. Since she is not, something must happen...
...Novum Ovum...
...legal abortion [Dec. 25]: When are we going to face the fact that human beings can no longer breed at the same level as animals? People should not be forced to become parents because of a blind biological collision between sperm and ovum, but should be free to choose whether or not they will undertake the obligations of parenthood...
There are, in fact, two such drugs now under investigation by U.S. fertility researchers. Both are scarce and forbiddingly expensive. But both are of great interest to the small percentage of women who are infertile because they do not ovulate - whose ovaries do not release an ovum, ready for fertilization, once every month, as do the ovaries of normal women...