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...ship far out at sea whose masthead can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the east whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountaintop; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother's womb...
ABORTION. In 1973 the court ruled that a state cannot stop an abortion when a woman and her doctor decide that she will have one-so long as the fetus is not "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb." But does a woman's husband have any rights in the matter, and if she is an unmarried minor, can her parents forbid the abortion? Last week, by a vote of 6 to 3 on the first question and 5 to 4 on the second, the court ruled that neither husband nor parent may have "an absolute...
...with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father's love for her, the child. "How old are you now?" asks Ron. She is three. Ron asks again, and she says she is three months in the womb, knowing that her mother does not want to bear her. "Be your mother now," says Ron. "Do you hate the child or are you just afraid of losing your husband?" The woman takes the hint and, still vibrating rapidly in her chair, forgives her mother...
...burger consultants could set the party line for franchisers. In the center of one floor, a cone-shaped think tank, containing a circular water bed and a device which projects the user's alpha waves onto a screen, facilitates important decisions. (Employees may meet together within the womb-like room, unless they are of different sexes). Hamburger Central directives are communicated to the "professors" at nearby Hamburger University, which awards the Bachelor and Masters of Hamburgerology to future managers...
...prosecution's case because it rests on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. As he did during the trial, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his weak appeal in emotionalism. Flanagan could not contradict the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside of the mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child had been born, Flanagan could not prove that the alleged human life...