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...Lessing's final, heartbreaking effect is to place her characters and her readers between the dead ghosts of the past and the unborn ghosts of the future. She goes so far as to invent a set of rooms into which, as in a recurrent dream, her narrator magically steps to observe a child (herself as a child, or an Emily from another time, or both) living out some fairly loveless incidents from a past that may be real or subconscious. But no past of any sort can look as bleak as Mrs. Lessing's present. Only the future...
...Flemming, a Methodist layman who was formerly president of the National Council of Churches. Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, chairman of the Catholic bishops' pro-life committee, protested that the commission had apparently joined "those who would violate the rights of the most powerless among us -the unborn child...
This case illustrated the full impact of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The lack of respect for human life is not confined to the unborn child but is being extended to the child after separation from its mother, even as it was extended in Japan following legalization of abortion. Nothing short of a return to total respect for human life, born and unborn, will eliminate abuses...
...necessarily imply the death of the fetus as well. Conflicting evidence was presented on whether the fetus involved in the specific abortion was viable. Dr. John B. Ward, a Pittsburgh pathologist, testified for the prosecution that his postmortem examination had revealed that the fetus had breathed and that the unborn infant, which weighed 700 grams (1 lb. 8 oz.), could have survived. Defense witnesses said that the fetus had not in fact breathed; on Edelin's behalf, some medical experts testified that fetuses weighing less than 1,000 grams (2 lbs. 3 oz.) rarely, if ever survive...
...prosecution's argument from the gut issue of abortion was highlighted by the testimony of William Mecklenburg a Minneapolis obstetrician associated with the right-to-life movement. Mecklenburg attacked Edelin for what he called bad medical practice in the hysterotomy operation because the procedure is "extremely dangerous" to the unborn child. But abortion is meant to be dangerous-to-unborn children. Mecklenburg's testimony underscored something that became clearer and clearer as the trial went on: that the Commonwealth's case rested on a moral presumption that was not part of the law, the presumption that abortion is a crime...