Word: unbornable
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...Then throw it in the wastebasket. Hortense Calisher, a novelist (False Entry, Textures of Life) and short-storyteller of formidable skill, has unaccountably produced in Journal from Ellipsia a prodigious intellectual plonk: the autobiography of a-well, maybe it is a Hegelian monad, maybe it is an unborn soul, maybe it is a visitor from outer space, maybe it is just something the lady ate. Whatever it is, she writes about it in a style that combines the least admirable characteristics of James Joyce and Henry James with a Hortenseness all her own, and she writes about...
...subject for federal legislation. With their feelings I can and do sympathize. But I cannot help believe that the prevention of human degradation and starvation is likewise a moral-as well as a material-obligation resting upon every enlightened government. If we now ignore the plight of those unborn generations which, because of our unreadiness to take corrective action in controlling population growth, will be denied any expectations beyond abject poverty and suffering, then history will rightly condemn...
...Pediatrics, the seven medical researchers suggest that this same reflex may be what causes many premature and some full-term infants to shut down the flow of blood through their lungs. Some unborn infants may have had the reflex activated to compensate for an oxygen shortage caused by low blood pressure in the mother, or a constriction or partial separation of the umbilical cord. As a result, the babies are born with thousands of constricted arterioles that do not carry sufficient blood to the lung's air spaces where oxygen is picked up-a condition that leads...
Like most legal developments, the rights of the unborn child were not won easily. Under common law in medieval England, an unborn child had no legal rights and no separate identity except in cases of inheritance, abortion, and where the mother was condemned to die. Then the execution was stayed long enough to allow the child to be born. The situation progressed very little until the 1940s when a few U.S. courts began allowing plaintiffs to recover for damages suffered before their birth under the ancient canon that where there is a wrong, there must also be a remedy. These...
...unborn plaintiff has such recovery rights against outsiders, the next obvious question is its legal position to its mother. As yet, the issue has not been tested. But some lawyers feel that if a child can prove that its mother negligently exposed it to a defect-causing disease, there is no reason why the child cannot sue its own mother-and collect...