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What saves Anderson from Electronic Age pretentiousness is her cooly ambivalent humor. She's aware of the moral, political, and intellectual paradoxes of the "Big Science" that can provide all this amazing circuitry. She projects radar dishes, poses tough questions--"Should the unborn have civil rights?"--and takes a science lesson to absurd lengths by wondering what would happen if sperm were the size of sperm whales and decided to impregnate Japan...
AIDS may spread throught casual contact, Haseltine said. Although it is is currently known to be transmitted only by sex, donated blood, organs, and semen, and from pregnant mothers to their unborn children, it may also be transmissible by tears, saliva, bodily fluids, and mosquito bites...
According to Haseltine, there is a sixty to seventy percent chance that the disease will be transmitted from an infected pregnant woman to her unborn child...
...CLEAR, however, that the Religious Right has fulfilled its responsibilities. The issue highest on its political agenda is abortion. Surely any measure that would reduce the number of abortions in this country should appeal to those in favor of the "right to life" of the unborn...
...Religious Right's opposition to teenage sex should not come before its support of the unborn child's right to life. The argument that a commercial about birth control would only increase sexual activity among adolescents ignores the reality that millions of adolescents are already sexually active--too often with abortion as their sole means of contraception. The Religious Right can prepare public-service messages on chastity if it chooses; perhaps these will decrease sexual activity among tomorrow's teenagers. Today's teenagers, though, are sexually active and they desperately need information about birth control...