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...opponent is best known for his attempts to prosecute a woman who allegedly killed her unborn child in a drunk driving accident. The district attorney maintains, however, that the case would not affect abortion rights...
...important to make a distinction between a life-threatening disease and a trait. In our society, prenatal diagnosis followed by pregnancy termination has been deemed acceptable when the consequences to the unborn child are devastating disease and early death. But now we come to sex selection. Sex is not a disease. Yet it is possible, using simple diagnostic techniques, to determine the sex of an unborn child well before the time when pregnancy termination is no longer allowable. There are certainly instances in genetics clinics where couples come in with just that idea in mind. Legally there is nothing criminal...
WASHINGTON--As New Hampshire's attorney general in 1976, Supreme Court nominee David Souter submitted a brief in which the state argued against paying for Medicaid abortions and referred to abortion as "the killing of unborn children...
...earlier case, argued in 1972 when Souter was the state's deputy attorney general, New Hampshire defended its strict anti-abortion law against a constitutional challenge by arguing: "The maintenance of an unborn child's right to birth is a compelling interest which outweighs any rights of a mother to an abortion except when necessary to preserve her life...
...stop by a small farm where a woman shows us the barn where she keeps her three riding horses. MacAllister gives one mare a pregnancy check and discovers that the horse, 45 days pregnant, is bearing twins. He works to convince the owner, quite clearly anti-abortion, that the unborn foals must be aborted. It is dangerous for a mare to give birth to twins, he tells...