For more on these issues, watch for upcoming editions of the Weekly Issues Summary . Redefining Child and Fetus Pro-life organizations are mobilizing against a pending federal regulation devised during the last days of the Clinton administration, that could redefine the terms fetus and child. The redefinition could result in the use of newborns for scientific research. The regulation, which was cleared by the Clinton administration on Jan. 17, but then postponed by the Bush administration, states that a newborn is still considered a fetus until it is determined the baby will live by independently maintaining a heartbeat and respiration. Only when this determination is made, is the baby considered a child, according to the rule.
Birth is birth.
When a baby is born and has cleared the birth channel, a child has been born. No matter how long it lives, it s a child. A similar resolution in support of Gay and Lesbian History Month was removed from the union s platform in 1996 after pressure from conservative and other groups. League staffer, Cyndee Randall taught in the public schools for 20 years. Back then I simply objected to their support of liberal candidates.