Word: unborn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack Kemp when he needed it. But Robertson's campaign staggered from one kookiness to the next as the candidate not only professed he was (like all the Republicans) opposed to abortion, but argued that we are committing genocide against ourselves by depriving America of all the wages unborn babies would be earning in the 21st century. He also made wild claims about offensive missiles remaining in Cuba. He finally became a laughingstock when he suggested that Bush's people had engineered the Jimmy Swaggart sex scandal to damage his campaign...
...from sight. There are many like Philoctetes in America, citizens cast out from public consciousness because their medical problems seem too painful or costly to face. Among them: 37 million Americans who have no health insurance, a million young women too poor to provide adequate prenatal care for their unborn children, countless drug addicts turned away from treatment centers for lack of room, 73,000 victims of AIDS denied protection from discrimination...
...Committee last week threatened to boycott products of any U.S. firm that attempts to market such pills. The group's ire was further raised when the New England Journal of Medicine last week gave high marks to another abortion drug, epostane, developed by Sterling Drug Inc. "These pills kill unborn babies," said committee spokesman Richard Glasow. "They will increase the use of abortion as a method of birth control...
...Addressing a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences held in Bethesda, Md., last week, Dr. Ira Chasnoff of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital reported that a study he directed of 36 U.S. hospitals found that at least 11% of 155,000 pregnant women surveyed had exposed their unborn babies to illegal drugs, with cocaine by far the most common. "There are women who wouldn't smoke and wouldn't drink," he says, "but they can't stay away from cocaine." Chasnoff concedes that his numbers are probably low since many of the hospitals did not take full prenatal...
...charlatan," says Helms, 66. No, he's a true believer. As patron saint of the not-so-New Right, he is protector of the unborn, champion of prayer in the classroom and pure hell on Communists. "A guy of guts and fire," Republican Senator Alan Simpson calls him. But conservatives too know how prickly he can be. Ask Ronald Reagan. Negotiating arms deals with the Kremlin is one thing; getting them past Helms is something else. Helms is not just committed to causes, he is consumed by them. Consider his fight to ban abortion. "Sure I'm obsessed with...