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Last year the A.C.L.U. challenged the constitutionality of the 1905 Illinois statute, which allows abortion only to preserve the mother's life. Then Dr. Bart Heffernan, a Roman Catholic obstetrician and head of the Right-to-Life group, entered the case on behalf of the state's unborn children. Heffernan's brief argued that overturning the law would deprive the unborn of life without due process. He noted that since the 18th century courts have recognized the fetus' right to inherit or to share a trust, and that modern developments in tort law have recognized suits...
...There is no evidence that marijuana affects unborn children...
...unborn children, curled
Ellen Berman's sensitive Ethel Merman-like portrayal of the Blessed Mother is one of the strengths of the show. She takes snapshots at the Last Supper, genuflects compulsively after the Resurrection, and belts out "The Dove that Done Me Wrong" -she says of her unborn Child, "Well, it'll either be some sort of strange bird, or the Savior of the World" -with an eerie operatic raunchiness. Kay Tolbert's Mary Magdalene is a good-natured whore; her number, "You Can't Get a Man with a Prayer" ("God is just an abstraction/I need a little action "), places...
...There are laws in the books against killing you," Lynch told an audience at Winthrop House, "and there should be laws against killing an unborn child...