Word: unborn
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...average North American feminist, contraception and abortion symbolize social emancipation. In Nicaragua, however, "You're not a real woman if you don't have children," one female Sandinist says. Because of the Roman Catholic Church's heavy influence, abortions are only legal (and gratis) when the mother's or unborn child's lives are endangered. Because the FSLN government wants to repopulate Nicaragua (which lost 30,000 people during the war), contraception is not encouraged. Nor is it discouraged--family planning counseling and devices are free to all women, regardless of age or marital status. As with abortions, a woman...
Long range, the goal of antiabortion zealots is a constitutional amendment repealing the right to an abortion even for those women who can pay for it. Says Congressman Hyde: "We want to protect the unborn children of the rich and middle class, as well as the unborn of the poor." Nineteen of the 34 states needed have already passed resolutions calling for a constitutional convention to consider some sort of antiabortion amendment, and Hyde and others are trying to drum up the two-thirds congressional majority required to pass an amendment that would then go to the states for ratification...
...unborn baby healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness? In many cases the answers to these worrisome questions can be found in laboratory analysis of a small sample of the amniotic fluid drawn from the sac surrounding the baby in the womb. Using amniocentesis, as the technique is called, doctors can accurately predict serious disorders like Down's syndrome (mongolism) and Gaucher's disease (a metabolic disorder); faced with a grim certainty, prospective parents can opt for abortion. But amniocentesis has its limitations; it cannot foretell all defects...