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...done a lot of important work for the scientific community, and arguably for humanity.” This is not Dr. Watson’s first controversial remark. In 2003, an Australian newspaper reported Watson as saying that pregnant women should have the choice to abort their unborn fetus if testing determined that it would be genetically inclined to be gay. Aside from his public apology, Watson has kept silent on his remarks and has declined to be interviewed by the media. —Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
BACK TO THE FUTURE Sarah (Linda Hamilton), mother of unborn resistance leader John Connor, is hunted by a cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from a machine-ruled future. Flouting Einstein, her time-traveling bodyguard (Michael Biehn) becomes John's father...
...official position of the Republican Party on abortion is more extreme than most people realize. All of its recent platforms have declared that "the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children." The 14th Amendment is the one that protects fundamental rights and "equal protection of the laws." If "unborn children" are a protected group under the 14th Amendment--like blacks, women and so on--abortion is unconstitutional. A state couldn't legalize abortion even if its citizens wished to. Women who procure abortions and doctors who perform them would have to be prosecuted for murder, just like a woman...
Early on in the 2004 supernatural Russian thriller Night Watch, the protagonist, trying to prevent a witch from casting a spell on his unborn child, yells at the top of his lungs in protest. For English-speaking audiences, the subtitles do more than just translate the literal meaning: the words "no" and "stop" with three exclamation points are shown on different parts of the screen in large, moving letters. In another scene, as a swimming character hears a voice in his head causing his nose to bleed, the words "come to me," appear in red letters that dissolve like blood...
...that abortion is solely a public health matter and not a moral one. Mexico's leading Catholic cleric, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, recently told hundreds of pro-life Mexicans, who had just angrily marched through Mexico City protesting the abortion legalization proposal, that "the culture that proposes death for the unborn disguises its arguments... They say abortion is an issue of health and don't see that it's a fundamental problem for the life of the human race...