Word: womb
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...Sidney has a kvetching mama, who calls him way too often, and a scrupulous kid brother Mike. In the movie, they are sensibly excised as being useless to our understanding of Sidney. This creature didn't come out of a womb but from under a rock. He has no lineage; he created himself, in the dark, dank, rank cave of his ambitions. The film is interested only in how he gets by in this "dog-eat-dog" world. ("Every dog will have his day," says the movie Sidney, who's full of animal metaphors.) At its black heart, "Sweet Smell...
...many who bemoan the evils of abortion, including the author of a recent editorial in these pages, a common tactic to elicit sympathy for their cause is employing harrowing imagery of the abortion itself. They talk, for example, of sharp hooks ladling the fetus out of the womb. Such an image tugs on any reader’s heartstrings; no one wants to see a baby impaled on a sharp hook. The problem is, however, that this picture is a gross misrepresentation of reality: the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester with a vacuum-like device?...
...larger error committed by nearly every anti-abortion activist is, however, that their arguments consider only the unborn fetus, without mention of the woman in whose womb it resides, as if she is no more than an incubator for this precious life. Indeed, “life” is the word used by every upstanding anti-abortion activist. But it is not life that’s at stake, it is the potential for life. The law, both in word and in spirit, rightly protects life itself and not the promise...
...whether or not to have an abortion isn’t yours to make. You do not—and cannot—speak for the millions who will have to make this very difficult choice. It isn’t you who will carry the child in your womb for nine months; and it isn’t you who will have to raise...
...after an unnamed woman) by rolling back a controversial 1992 Supreme Court ruling that equated the threat of suicide with physical risk to the woman's life. The amendment also formally defines abortion for the first time, protecting unborn human life not after conception, but "after implantation in the womb." That moderate definition would allow access to the morning-after pill and appeal to the middle ground in the conservative context of Ireland. But it has also upset some hardline pro-lifers, such as influential M.E.P. Dana Rosemary Scallon, who are now in a de facto "No" alliance with their...