Pro-choice's guinea pigs
The birth of my fourth granddaughter two weeks ago - healthy, a good weight - was the occasion for joy and relief in equal measure.
The birth of my fourth granddaughter two weeks ago - healthy, a good weight - was the occasion for joy and relief in equal measure.
It is a bitter irony that even as we are enlarging our commitment to human equality in many areas, we are turning our backs on it in others.
"Terri, are you sitting down?"the nurse asked over the telephone. "We got your test results back and they were positive. You're pregnant."
The push for pre-natal diagnostic tests for pregnant mothers just became stronger.
She was a fresh-faced young woman with a couple of adorable kids, whiling away an hour in the sandbox at the park near my home. So was I, or so I thought.
In order to persuade the personally opposed pro-choicer we must address this 1970's feminist fallacy that abortion is necessary for women's sexual equality and well-being
In 1999 my son was given a prenatal diagnosis of "fetal anomalies incompatible with life". I was offered "choices".
President Reagan would not want to become a poster child for fetal stem cell research. This is not the memorial that he would want, not the crusade that he would have wished his wife to embark upon.
Recently I read an article about the effects of abortion, which included "post abortion syndrome." Could you please explain what that is?
In the thirty years since "Roe v. Wade", science and technology have continued their forward march. Ultrasound has advanced from the grainy black and white shadows of yesteryear to movies in living color. Little wonder that obstetricians are increasingly reluctant to perform abortions. Who, after all, could consider a fetus as life unworthy of living, once they've held its hand?
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