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...been charged with at least one more murder. That?s the line from the Christian Coalition, members of which were on hand Thursday as the House passed a bill that would make it a federal offense to harm a fetus while committing a federal crime. Under the coalition-backed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, McVeigh, one of the perpetrators in the Oklahoma City bombing case, would have one more offense on his rap sheet because a pregnant woman was among the casualties of the explosion. While no one can predict what will happen in the Senate, the House approval caught...
...prospective parents would prefer to avoid putting an unborn child at risk with amniocentesis, the current test for Down's syndrome, but would they wait the month for a verdict that a new, safer test involves? That's the question being debated following the release of a new study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which researchers developed a computer program that can collate the results of two non-invasive procedures carried out a month apart to more accurately establish the presence of Down's syndrome. Although neither a first trimester blood test and ultrasound...
...that while Bush is pro-life, he doesn't really mean it. He won't push for a constitutional amendment that bans abortions, and though he wants the procedure to be "rare"--a squishy phrase they'll remind audiences that Clinton has used--Bush has not made saving the unborn a priority while in office. That may change slightly in a few weeks if the Texas legislature passes a Bush proposal requiring doctors to contact parents of minors seeking abortions. With fresh legislation and the blessing of his position by religious leaders like Pat Robertson, Bush hopes...
When Beck, a Harvard grad student with multiple degrees, discovers she's pregnant for the second time, she's optimistic that she can still have it all because she has always had it all. By the time she discovers her unborn child has Down syndrome, she's already in love with the baby, and she and her husband decide against the abortion everyone recommends. Slyly ironic, frequently hilarious, Beck's memoir charts the journey from being smart to becoming wise, along the way drawing a believable portrait of a marriage in which two people root entirely for each other...
...unborn," Mason said, mimicking an opponent of abortion rights. "And like the unborn, we are under siege...