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Those who oppose a woman's right to choose often do so on the basis of the rights of the unborn. We believe in the rights of the unborn to be well-born, the right to be wanted and loved by parent(s) who can afford to support a child. We support a woman's right to choose between bearing a child and not bearing it. But the choice must be real, not just theoretical. Women without means have never had a real choice. They have delivered without adequate medical care just as they have in desperation sought abortions from...
SINCE THE SUPREME Court decision on abortion, no one can deny a woman's legal right to terminate the life of an unborn fetus. But abortion remains an extremely sensitive moral issue, and the University should not offer a mandatory health insurance plan that covers non-therapeutic abortions...
While not in any way retreating from the church's total condemnation of abortion, the bishops have recognized political reality and now call upon government to protect "the unborn child to the maximum degree possible." The "maximum-degree-possible" approach may fall short of the ideal, but to the bishops it has the virtue of being attainable...
...Should medical scientists be allowed to conduct research on unborn or newly aborted fetuses? No, said the Department of Health, Education and Welfare last year, as it clapped a nationwide ban on fetal studies. But last week HEW reversed itself. Outgoing HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced new rules that would permit hundreds of studies involving fetuses to go ahead. The rules, which apply to all projects funded by HEW, do not give researchers unrestricted rights to experiment on the unborn. Doctors still will be forbidden to carry out any experiment that would end the life of a fetus that...
Since then, other studies have underlined Jones' warning that drink is dangerous to the unborn. At a recent session on fetal alcoholism sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, Smith reported that he and his colleagues had personally evaluated 41-and were aware of 37 other-cases of the fetal syndrome. A physician in Nantes, France, where alcoholism is endemic, has detailed 125 cases. In a study of 82 births at Boston City Hospital, researchers discovered that of nine babies born to mothers found to be heavy drinkers, only one was normal...