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Article: MEDICAL ADVANCES REFOCUS THE DEBATE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1989
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One in a series of occasional articles on
abortion.
It happens occasionally today that a doctor in one room is
destroying a 21-week-old fetus growing inside a teen-ager who wants
nothing more than to be rid of her pregnancy while a doctor in the
next room is working feverishly to save the life of a 24-week-old
fetus delivered prematurely by a woman who wants nothing more than
to have her tiny, translucent baby survive.
The two procedures, aimed at fetuses precariously close in
development, represent widely hailed technical advances of the past
decade that have altered the abortion debate.
They are what Justice Sandra Day O'Connor called the
"collision course" of Roe vs. ...