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...Schaefer signed a bill last week that would protect a woman's right to have an abortion should the Supreme Court ever reverse its 1973 decision guaranteeing that right nationwide. The law allows abortion without restrictions up to the time a fetus is able to survive outside the womb; after that, an abortion can be performed only to protect a woman's health or when a fetus is deformed. While pro-choice advocates acclaimed the new law, antiabortion groups attacked it. "It will become the most liberal, the most extreme abortion law in the entire 50 states," said delegate Timothy...
...womb is the first home. Thereafter, home is the soil you come from and recognize, what you knew before uprooted: creatures carry an imprint of home, a stamp -- the infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms...
When all is said and done, "Thomas is Adams House," says Khahasa H. Wapenyi '92. "When you walk around Adams House, as a female, his presence just hits you in the womb...
...problems and diminished growth for exposed babies. "This decision was not taken lightly," says Denise Zutz, director of corporate communications for Johnson Controls. "We were concerned about the risks to children." The company was also seeking to avoid later lawsuits by any children who might be harmed in the womb...
...challenge was familiar to King Solomon: how to choose between two women, each declaring herself to be the child's mother. This time, however, one claimed motherhood because she had donated her genes, the other because she had donated her womb. That was the issue last week before California Superior Court Judge Richard Parslow, who broke new legal ground by awarding a test- tube baby to the genetic parents rather than to the surrogate mother. The woman had contracted to carry it for $10,000 and then changed her mind, saying she had "bonded" with the infant. "A three-parent...