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...opinion of many legal experts, last week's vote may bring precisely the opposite result because the amendment is vaguely worded. It reads in part: "The state acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect . . . vindicate and defend that right." As FitzGerald put it, "The most vulnerable word, legally speaking, is 'unborn...
...babies do any of the things they do is a matter of considerable complexity. Some theorists, like Thomas Verny, a Canadian psychiatrist who wrote The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, believe the infant begins learning behavior patterns while it is still in the uterus. Most experts, however, assume that the genes still carry messages that primitive humans once needed for survival. The so-called Moro reflex,* for example, which makes a newborn infant reach out its arms in a desperate grasping motion whenever it feels itself falling, implies some monkey-like existence at the dawn of time. Says Lewis...
With the decision that it is a woman's right to choose whether she wants an abortion, the Supreme Court has given women permission to continue to kill the unborn within their wombs...
What is the greater good that we seek to attain by extinguishing the life of the unborn child...
...conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last week and failed by two votes to muster even a simple majority...