Word: ramsey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the fetus, though dependent on the mother, is a separate organism, argued Leon Kass, a physician and professor of "bioethics" at Georgetown University. The fetus is also "human," at least in being "of human origin and in the process of becoming a human being -if nothing interferes." Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, says in his new book, The Ethics of Fetal Research (Yale University Press; $2.95), that the fetus is "live enough not to be dead, not yet mature enough to be an infant, yet a human being enough to deserve protection...
Because of such reasoning, six of the testifying ethicists would rule out virtually all experiments that might harm a fetus, even if it is to be aborted. Ramsey drew an analogy with medical tradition that forbids risk to children and to persons who are condemned to death, irreversibly dying or unconscious...
Marilyn Taylor of Ramsey, N.J., watches with trepidation when twelve-year-old Bobby skates into the corner, endangering the family's $1,600 investment in orthodontia. "It's not easy to be a hockey mother," she says. "Sometimes we have to get up at 3 in the morning to make a game. But it's never any problem. I just go to his room and say 'Hockey,' and my boy is right...
...nominate Ramsey Clark, who even in a losing battle showed that politics can be honest...
...Confederate veteran of the Civil War, Hunt was born on a farm in Ramsey, Ill. He left school early and for several years roamed- the country as a cowboy, mule skinner and lumberjack. In 1921 Hunt turned up in El Dorado, Ark., just after oil had been discovered. One story is that he won his first oil well in a game of five-card stud...