Word: unborn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children, an objective that seems to square with the President's pro-family views. Opponents argue that since human life begins at conception, the accidental but inevitable destruction of some embryos during in-vitro fertilization is murder. The irony is that in their zealous defense of the lives of "unborn children," the foes of in-vitro fertilization are preventing other children from ever being born...
This policy protects the company from future suits from not just unborn, but unconceived children. To keep their jobs, women workers--no matter what their child-rearing plans for the future--must provide the company with documented proof of infertility...
...making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life" but acknowledged that "to some there might be a contradiction there." Democrats attacked the decision, but so did Republicans. Said Republican Senator Bob Packwood: "We are on the wrong side on the issue...
...blanket ban, charging a violation of federal discrimination laws. But the Seventh Circuit, siding with the company, two weeks ago concluded that the workers had failed to show that the health hazard could be eliminated by anything less than the sweeping measure in question. Said the court: "The unborn child has no opportunity to avoid this grave danger, but bears the definite risk of suffering permanent consequences...
...women are told that abortion causes sterility and breast cancer and they're also told in a 'kind and gentle' way not to kill their unborn child," said Andrew Sabl '90, one of the protest organizers...