Is Eugenics Respectable Once Again?: ; Abortion Rights and Prenatal Testing Threaten the Imperfect

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WASHINGTON - In Britain, as in Europe generally, abortion law has not been made by judges proclaiming glistening, hard-edged rights that cannot be compromised.

Rather, abortion law has been made by lawmakers - imagine that - seeking to accommodate clashing sensibilities.

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Is Eugenics Respectable Once Again?: ; Abortion Rights and Prenatal Testing Threaten the Imperfect

That is one reason why British law is less extreme than America's essentially unlimited right to abortion on demand.

In Britain, after the 24th week of pregnancy - "viability," when the child presumably can live outside the womb -...

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