Word: unbornable
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...misguided the country that prohibits the execution of ruthless murderers, but then allows the murder of the innocent unborn...
...Cooke called the opinion "a tragic utilitarian judgment" and added that "judicial decisions are not necessarily sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that although he may have a beating heart and a functioning brain and be biologically human, the black man was not a legal person." More mildly, Bishop William Cannon...
...WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN? Most theologians and philosophers believe that she should base her decision on the question that Newman found to be a matter of individual judgment: when does a human being begin to exist? Is a fetus only "a bit of vegetating unborn matter" that counts for nothing, as Physician H.B. Munson asserts? Or is it a real person whose destruction Terence Cardinal Cooke describes as "slaughter of the innocent unborn"? The view of the fetus as a person has spawned a nationwide, Catholic-dominated, Right to Life movement whose partisans insist that abortion deprives the fetus...
...Somehow the pregnant addict is harder to treat than the non-pregnant," explains Dr. Antonio Domantay, an Odyssey House psychiatrist. Only 10% stay beyond the first six months at Mabon. Many of those who leave too soon go back on narcotics at a significant risk to themselves and their unborn children...
...means to a meditative experience, where honored magazines are polluted with pornography, where ministers have forgotten that Jesus never interfered with Caesar's laws, where free love has unleashed an epidemic of venereal disease, where destructive protest has been honored as righteous dissent, where the killing of unborn babies is thought a small price to pay for the pleasure of sex, where the purpose of law is forgotten and the letter of the law is worshiped like a plastic god, where tradition's moral sense is spat upon-in such an atmosphere, can you truly expect a bone...