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...greatest controversies of all may come from a potpourri of conservative concerns sacred to Reagan's New Right supporters if not necessarily to the President, which include abortion, school prayer and busing. Already introduced in Congress are a Human Life Bill, which would protect the rights of the unborn from the moment of conception, and a Family Protection Act, which seeks to reinforce "traditional" moral values by giving parents more control over such things as sex education. Reagan and his advisers indicate that they will support but not take the lead in fighting for this type of legislation...
...outraged to read of a 40-year-old mother taking the life of one of her unborn twins because it showed signs of Down's syndrome [June 29]. God planned to give this unborn boy a perfectly healthy brother to be by his side. He knew what he was doing, but I guess he chose the wrong parents...
What is next? Killing unborn children because they have only one arm? Or perhaps because they don't promise to have blue eyes and blond hair...
...vote of the Arizona senate's judiciary committee the following year, O'Connor reportedly opposed a "right-to-life memorial" that called upon Congress to extend constitutional protection to unborn babies, except where the pregnant mother's life was at stake. Also in 1974, she opposed a University of Arizona stadium bond issue after a rider had been attached banning state abortion funding to the university hospital...
Suddenly, Wilson recalled that Illinois' abortion law asserts in a preamble that life begins at conception. In an application probably never dreamed of by the right-to-life movement, Wilson decided to "represent the couple's unborn baby, seeking its release through a writ of habeas corpus on the theory that it had been deprived of liberty without having done anything wrong. Before Carol was released last week on other grounds, Wilson had tried his creative argument on a local judge and the Illinois Supreme Court...