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...price is $40, but new parents may feel it is well worth it. For Rock-A-Bye-Bear is a Teddy bear that makes cranky infants drop right off to sleep. How? It is implanted with a device that plays the soothing sounds babies hear while still in the womb: the pulsing thump and whoosh made by blood coursing through their mothers' pelvic arteries...
...could object that the fetus in the womb is as signally present in society as the child in the crib, that each are equally members of society. Yet surely the conception of "member" involves some minimal interaction. The fetus reacts to society of the outside world solely through the medium of the mother. Strictly speaking, then, society has no legal responsibility to the fetus, but rather to the mother...
...divided. Many Catholic Congressmen oppose abortion personally but want no constitutional amendment to control it. But for John Paul, activism is essential on human rights. "If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb," he has said, "an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order." He urged the cheering crowd in Washington to "demand that society give all life its protection...
That's news? Well, yes, in a way, because Lulu really was a lulu: the world's first "test-tube baby," as the tabloids proclaimed her, who in a revolutionary procedure was conceived outside the womb. The flaxen-haired girl not only was pretty but also had begun to talk at ten months. Said Truck Driver Father Jon Brown: "We think she's going to grow up into a very pretty blond and a very intelligent...
...fight was supposed to have been settled in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy until the fetus is presumably capable of "meaningful life outside the mother's womb." But as the passionate cries in Fountain Square showed, the battle is far from over. The rally capped a convention in which the forces opposed to abortion spent most of four days planning strategy for next year's elections and state legislative sessions. In heaping praise on Hyde, they honored...