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...Thou shalt not kill is still the law of the land. If the doctors carried out the father's orders, it would be tantamount to condemning that unborn child to death. Such an operation might be considered in effect an autopsy, and I know there is a law which prohibits autopsies without the consent of relatives, in cases where there is no presumption or suspicion of crime. But that unborn child has legal rights...
...life begins at the moment a child stirs in the womb. At that moment the child becomes an individual with all the rights of a fullborn infant. This has been the ruling decision in many cases. Unborn children have established their rights to legacies, have had guardians appointed and have instituted suits at law. In this case, however, it is the first time that the right to life has ever been presented to a court. In all the other cases life has been taken for granted, and property has been the issue...
Soviet science may be laggard in prestige and solidity, * but it is certainly not so in imagination. A report from Moscow's Laboratory for Aviation Medicine last week reminded observers of the conditioning courses for newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
With word that a series of government lectures by prominent professors will go out on the waves of WAAB next month, the yet unborn Harvard Guardian shows signs of vigorous pre-natal activity. For when Harvard big-wigs step up to the microphone sponsored by an undergraduate organization, the radio has become a real power in the university, not just a subject for turned-up academic noses. The contributions to political thought by such men as Professor Marx and Professor Holcombe may be limited in the fifteen precious minutes alloted them, but their words, compared to the usual radio palaver...
...Rembrandts and Michelangeies. Such personages are "acts of God," like volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. They don't get made. They make themselves. But there is something we can do and which we ought to do if we have any regard for the interests of those generations as yet unborn. We can and ought to provide the background against which these men of exceptional ability can develop their gifts to the utmost possibilities of their native talents, and without interference on the part of others...