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...modifying the gag rule, the President aimed not to offer better medical care to pregnant women, but to secure more votes...
...addition, in small rural towns there is a paucity of certified doctors. Most pregnant women see nurses, who are still forbidden to talk about abortion. The new modification does nothing to help these women and in fact specifically discriminates against them...
Bush is supported by much of the vocal pro-life movement, which argues that fetal-tissue research and transplants depend on murderous abortions -- and could, the pro-lifers claim, even encourage some pregnant women to have abortions they might otherwise decide against. On the other side of the battle are many medical researchers who think the experiments could lead to therapies for many diseases. They have been joined by an unusual coalition that includes victims of such diseases as Parkinson's and even by quite a few converts from the pro-life camp. Their tactic is to separate the issue...
Mike Nichols' staging, alas, is too ornate and stately, its pace slowed by pregnant pauses and suspense-draining scene changes. Moreover, the actors seem weirdly naturalistic for so polemic a text. Close never gets crazy enough for the audience to doubt whether she is right, as must happen to sustain tension. Dreyfuss goes right to the expedient, exploitative core of the husband without visiting the needed surface idealism and charm. Hackman's performance does not engage guilt or innocence; it remains stuck at bafflement throughout. These are high-voltage talents giving low-wattage portrayals...
Surgical procedures, more painful and profound, make courts more wary. Two years ago, a Chicago court refused to require twins to undergo tests to determine if their bone marrow could help their half brother who was dying of leukemia. In 1987 a Washington federal court ordered a pregnant cancer patient to undergo a caesarean delivery in an attempt to save the fetus, even though she and her doctors opposed the operation. The baby lived for just two hours. The woman died two days later. But the lower-court ruling doesn't provide a precedent because it was vacated...