Word: personhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Welfare Recipient. The women in the 5 million families on welfare are no more, and no less, representative of American womanhood than Anita Hill was. But the assault on welfare, like the Senate committee's interrogation of Professor Hill, is an implicit attack on the dignity and personhood of every woman, black or white, poor or posh...
...issue were the women's access to a medical treatment or a constitutionally protected activity, denying validity to the pro-life position in the same way that defenders of slavery might have pointed to constitutional support for property rights. Pro-choice unwillingness to consider the possibility of the fetus' personhood is a blind spot that prevents comprehension of the moral urgency motivating outspoken pro-life demonstrators...
...denial. "The Perfect Wife, is, of course, Donna Reed," Heyn writes. "Her virtue exists in direct proportion to how much of her self is whittled away." Having dampened her "visceral, honest, unshaped and uncontrolled responses," the American wife begins to feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly, she feels alive again. Simply negotiating the "lunacy of the logistics" as she outwits her husband and children makes the adulteress feel "at once frighteningly out of control and, strangely, very much in command...
...Sena, president of GAA, notes the similarity between the denial of the individual worth of those who are homosexual and the denial of the personhood of the unborn child. Although the denial of individual worth usually comes from people on opposite ends of the political spectrum, gay pro-lifers maintain that there is a logical similarity between the two denials...
...realization that the person is different. For all of us, our definition of personhood to some extent involves thinking and understanding. I'm not saying that the person with Alzheimer's is no longer a human being. But it's not like losing a leg. When you lose a leg you're still the same person you were before. Here, as the brain fails, the person becomes like a shadow, like a reflection in the pool that is very, very blurry...