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...schoolteacher Francis J.S. Pierce, who described herself as “retired, but not tired.” Pierce expressed her support for the Commission, saying that “the decisions that we make today will not only affect our young people...but will affect our generation yet unborn.” “When I hear the word ‘peace,’ I get excited,” Pierce said. —Staff writer William M. Goldsmith can be reached at wgoldsm@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff Writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached...
...memory, can't visualize seven-dimensional space and perhaps can't intuitively grasp why neural information processing observed from the outside should give rise to subjective experience on the inside. This is where I place my bet, though I admit that the theory could be demolished when an unborn genius--a Darwin or Einstein of consciousness--comes up with a flabbergasting new idea that suddenly makes it all clear...
...rhetorical trenches of the culture wars, sometimes the best way to ambush your enemies is to echo them. Read some of the arguments in support of the Federal Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, which the lame duck Congress debated on Wednesday, and you?ll be forgiven if you think they were drafted by a liberal crusader for women's rights. The law is presented as protecting a woman's right to know, and to make an informed consent. "Women should not be kept in the dark," argues Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, a sponsor of the bill whose stated purpose...
...fertilization a fetus can feel pain, and to ask if she would like anesthesia for the baby. If she refuses, she would have to sign a waiver. Doctors who fail to follow the rules could face fines up to $250,000. "There is substantial evidence that by this point, unborn children draw away from surgical instruments in a manner which in an infant or an adult would be interpreted as a response to pain," the text of the bill states. "Congress finds that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn...
...remains legal, the least we can do is make it merciful. But the bill's language makes it clear that in this case mercy is for monsters: it invites women to request pain relief for her baby, so that it will hurt less when, as the law states, "the unborn child's body parts are grasped at random with a long-toothed clamp. The fetal body parts are then torn off of the body and pulled out of the vaginal canal." The text notes that this concern for the unborn child's possible pain is in keeping with laws having...