Word: pro
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...lives of unborn children. Yet it is precisely because of our respect for them that we listen carefully to the pain and anger they have because of abortion. Pavone quoted abortionist David Zbaraz who said abortion is "a nasty, dirty, yucky thing and I always come home angry." A "pro-life" position means caring about all human life, including the lives of abortionists...
...programs that offer a place where a mother can leave a baby and walk away [LAW, Feb. 21]. My rage is directed not at the mothers but at our puritanical, judgmental, self-serving society. This tragic phenomenon is the harvest of the views sown by the pro-lifers, who irresponsibly insist that a pregnancy must result in birth. I challenge pro-lifers to spend a week in an urban slum visiting homeless and unwanted children and seeing the quality of their lives. Perhaps the pro-lifers might then realize that choice is the only road toward a life worth living...
ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star...
...Religious conservatives criticize Surgeon General and former pro-life ally C. Everett Koop for his AIDS-education campaign...
...While passage in the Senate appears relatively safe - even if the quid pro quo may turn out to be legislation to boost Taiwan's defenses - only 50 or 60 House Democrats are currently on board. In a speech at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, President Clinton appealed to Democratic skeptics by painting WTO membership as a kind of liberalizing crowbar that would force open China's closed society. But the fact that Beijing's human rights record actually deteriorated over the six years since the President unlinked trade issues from human rights may reinforce skepticism. In the end, though, China...