Word: personhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holly (Mary Tyler Moore) is the ideal mom. She loves hubby (Ted Danson) and the kids; she stretches her body on the rack of aerobics to atone for uncommitted sins. And yet something is missing: oh, a sense of her own radiant personhood. Can she find it with Sandy (Christine Lahti), a TV reporter who needs a best friend too? Maybe not, since, by just the darnedest coincidence, Holly's hubby and Sandy's lover are the same wonderful...
Speaking before an audience of 35 at a Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club forum, Dr. Joseph Fletcher, professor of Medicine and author of the book "Situation Ethics: The New Morality," said the abortion issue is an ethical determination of when "personhood" begins. "Everyone agrees that life begins at conception--but the issue is when should we assign the rights and status of a person to the fetus," he said...