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Issues passionate and human and difficult surge up against the Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American television cop show: there comes a moment of denouement when the detective, triumphant but sardonically obedient to the Miranda decision, snaps the cuffs on a suspect and growls, "You have the right to remain silent. You have the right...
...argument as a principal weapon in their war to overturn Roe v. Wade. Given the uncertainty of the viability standard, they claim, potential life should be recognized from conception. They point to medical technologies such as sonography and fetal-heart monitoring that have literally raised the visibility of the unborn well before viability. "It's now common for young couples to see their ((unborn)) little baby moving around, sucking his thumb," says John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
Last week a municipal judge in Santa Ana dismissed the ticket after Yasger, now eight months pregnant, reminded the court that California's child-support law considers a fetus to be a child. She cited the case of Pamela Rae Stewart, a San Diego mother accused of harming her unborn son by taking illegal drugs and ignoring her doctor's instructions. Judge Randell Wilkinson threw out the * ticket rather than rule on the legal status of a fetus. Yasger, who has two other children, felt vindicated. "I was very serious about it," she said, "but I definitely...
...approved for use in + France and Sweden as early as next spring. In the U.S., where abortion is hotly debated, the drug's future is less certain. John Willke, the president of the National Right to Life Committee, has already referred to the drug as "chemical warfare against the unborn...
...have sex with prostitutes. Infected male and female prostitutes are frequently also intravenous drug abusers; therefore, they may infect clients by sexual intercourse and other intravenous drug abusers by sharing their intravenous drug equipment. Female prostitutes also can infect their unborn babies...