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...those standards, about 95% of the 1,650 abortions that were performed in the state in 1988 would now be illegal. Though women who have abortions would not be sent to jail, their doctors could be liable for a $10,000 civil penalty for a first offense. Planned Parenthood's Linda King White blasted the legislators for their "reckless disregard for the lives of Idaho women" and vowed a court challenge...
...truth, motives for having babies are never selfless. Children are called to life by adult desires: to experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects...
...would Bush play such an opportunity? A G.O.P. dream scenario runs like this: Bush (obviously) avoids choosing a trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...
...parenthood is] probably not that far away. Eighty percent of men and women have children sometime, and the vast majority of women have kids before...
...Suffolk County District Attorney's office also has sent blood samples to a lab for DNA testing which would establish the parenthood of the child. Results will take at least three weeks, said Dr. Gerald Fegin of the state Medical Examiner's office...