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...passed a bill which would ban late-term abortions unless the procedure is required to save the mother's life. The vote on the controversial bill was 286 to 129, but President Clinton is likely to veto the legislation since he believes it does not include enough protection for pregnant women. Other opponents of the bill claim that the bill infringes on the right of physicians to practice medicine without fear of government intrusion. The technique, performed about 200 times a year, involves partially delivering the fetus, and then collapsing and draining its skull contents. The process is an "offense...
...summer of 1979, Hillary was so eager to have a baby that the Clintons contemplated visiting a doctor at the University of California, San Francisco. The trip proved unnecessary: Hillary became pregnant that summer and gave birth to Chelsea Victoria...
...fact not a single girl mentioned welfare or any form of public assistance [as a reason to get pregnant]," Dodson says...
Dodson says that many of the girls studied said they felt sexual pressure and believed they had few options in life and no real future if they did not get pregnant...
...choice position represents the woman's right to opt whether to carry her baby to term. Perhaps she didn't intend to get pregnant in the first place--should the unrequested pregnancy burden her for her lifetime? Rape violates the agency of the woman; she should not be required to keep alive something that she is attached to, but is completely foreign...