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...phone from North Carolina's senior U.S. Senator Jesse Helms. For Helms, East was not only a political protege but a philosophical double. East is remembered mainly for having sponsored a measure in the Senate that failed to pass, a bill that would have outlawed abortion by declaring a fetus a "person" from the moment of conception...
...blond tonalities of the painting, its neutral, high and even light, are freighted with death. One realizes, subliminally at first, the likeness between the naked rabbit in a puddle of watery pink fluid on the plate and a fetus curled in its amniotic sac. But in a more general way, the pinkness of the rabbit is the rosiness of human nudity, and Lopez sets down every detail of it with an exact balance between detachment and anxiety. Nothing that can be seen is skimped--not even the freezer burns on the meat (which, Lopez explains, thawed...
...years ago, while she was pregnant with their first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen was inadvertently cut off, causing irreversible brain damage. Nancy Jobes has been in a coma ever since, sustained by a feeding tube in a New Jersey nursing home. John, together with Nancy's parents and siblings, wants to have the feeding tube removed, but faces a battery of legal...
...right to make reproductive decisions is part of a "right to privacy" implicit in the 14th Ammendment to the Constitution. Judge Harry Blackmun, in the historic 1973 ruling, decided that government, when forced to choose, should defend the life/right of a woman over a "potential life" of a fetus...
Ultimately, Homer rebels against his teacher: "You can call it a fetus, or an embryo, or the products of conception, thought Homer Wells, but whatever you call it, it's alive." He announces that he wants nothing more to do with abortions...