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...refine their arguments. "It's a whole new ball game for people in this movement," says Judith Brown, president of the Virginia-based American Life League. She hopes to convince people that even though the fetal material being expelled doesn't look like a baby, it is still an unborn child. "We will have to personalize the egg," she says. By the time a woman misses a period, sees her doctor and confirms the pregnancy, opponents note, there are already distinct signs of life. "Brain waves can be picked up as early as six weeks," says Laura Echevarria, communications director...
...that nearly all those arrested were African American. The hospital soon reached an agreement with the department's Office for Civil Rights to stop telling law enforcers when pregnant women test positive. But the high court still must decide the constitutional question: Does the purported damage being done to unborn children--and the cost to the public of caring for addicted babies--outweigh the requirement that officials obtain warrants for searches...
...place to begin to agree is before conception. The abortion debate begins at that instant--no conception, no fetus to be aborted and hence no debate over the rights of the unborn. (Some religious groups do press for protection even of the unconceived and protest the use of contraceptives; I challenge them to accept a compromise on acceptance of contraception as essential to reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and hence potential abortions...
...There wasn't a single voice up there for the unborn. There was nobody that got up and spoke about right to life." (NYT, via "Face the Nation...
...Gore's response suggests that the woman's right to choose is global: She can elect to save her unborn child, or she can decide , in effect, to abort it by being executed herself. It's a grisly choice. Unfortunately for Gore (not to mention the pro-choice movement in general), his response set legislative wheels in motion. The tie-in was obvious: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who sponsored a bill banning the execution of pregnant inmates, took to the House floor to lobby for her position, informing colleagues that unborn children had committed no crime...