Word: unborn
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...both houses of Congress pass the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, the killer would be responsible for not only the woman?s death but also that of her unborn child. Depending on who's describing it, the bill will either ensure adequate prosecution of anyone who takes two lives by killing a pregnant woman or open the doors to further restriction of abortion rights. The UVVA, sponsored by South Carolina Republican Representative Lindsey Graham, easily passed a House vote Thursday - but supporters expect an uphill battle in the Senate, where Ohio Republican Mike DeWine recently introduced a duplicate bill...
...bilingual products said to train baby brains so they will be more receptive to multiple languages. The hard sell even follows kids to the one place you'd think they'd be allowed some peace - the womb - with handheld tummy speakers designed to pipe music and voices to the unborn baby, the better to stimulate the growing brain and get it ready for the work it will eventually have to do. Parents who don't avail themselves of these products do so at their children's peril: the brain, they are told, has very limited windows for learning certain skills...
...Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom for HBO won her a writing Emmy and helped define a kind of off-kilter, fact-based drama that has become a pay-cable staple. Showtime's 1998 The Baby Dance, about the class tension between a wealthy couple and the couple whose unborn baby they're going to adopt, and her segment of last year's HBO If These Walls Could Talk 2, with Vanessa Redgrave as an elderly lesbian legally dispossessed when her lover dies, were tough-minded triumphs...
Until the End of Time, drawn from a fertile period of Shakur's life--1995 and early 1996--shows that his mother knows how to choose wisely. The CDs are packed with his resonant, staccato rapping and poignant subject matter. Letter 2 My Unborn (Shakur left no children), eerie in its prescience about dying childless, is the sort of work that will nourish his mystique. Says poet Nikki Giovanni, who has studied Shakur extensively: "There's an old Nigerian proverb: You're not dead until you're forgotten." By that measure, Tupac lives...
...Germans are least supportive, with fewer than two in five in favor of continued research Although generally supportive of further research, most young Europeans want restrictions on the freedom of parents to manipulate the genetic makeup of their unborn children...