Download or read book The Future Unborn written by Khristina Chess and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acceptance into MIT means everything to Kansas Jones, a straight-A student, class president, top female swimmer on the varsity team, and member of the local teen robotics club. Her high school resume is immaculate. Getting pregnant at eighteen is unthinkable.Then the unthinkable happens.Twelve weeks seems like plenty of time to take care of the situation. She knows what to do. It's just that she has to take SATs first... and study for finals for the grading period... and prepare for her local MIT interview. Her Early Action college application is due. The team is pushing hard to finish their robot in time for the R2-RoboCon competition in December. An abortion requires money and time to plan, and she doesn't have either.When a close family member loses a child, Kansas sees how she could fix everything, but it might cost her MIT and all her dreams for the future. Is she willing to carry this unwanted pregnancy to term? Will she be able to give the baby away?
Download or read book Christopher Unborn written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
Download or read book A Theory of Unborn Life written by Anja J. Karnein and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of biomedical technologies, such as artificial reproduction, stem cell research, and genetic selection, the question of what we owe to future persons is as contested as ever. Here, Karnein provides a novel theory that shows how our commitments to persons can help us make sense of our obligations to unborn life.
Download or read book What We Owe the Future written by William MacAskill and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.” —Ezra Klein An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
Download or read book Unborn written by Gaius Famius and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, Mothers have legally achieved the natural right to abort their offspring up until the moment of viability. An Unborn is not considered legally viable until the 18th anniversary of their Entrance, or the day they left their mother's body. Until the moment of being Born, the mother has complete and 100% Choice on whether or not to abort her child. These abortions are done by nursing teams who use cattle thuds to terminate the Unborn. Summer dreams and longs for the day when she will be legally viable so that she will no longer have to worry about being aborted.This dystopian future is shocking because it is so close to becoming a reality, that it makes "1984" seem like a bright utopian spring day.Profoundly disturbing!But the logical extension of the pro-abortion, euthanasia, medical ethicists.Undeniably shocking!But why should this work of fiction be anymore shocking than the slaughter of babies that happens every day in America?This book is intended to be read by everyone, pro-life or pro-abortion. Some people will be appalled at the future described, and others will welcome it as the natural logical extension of their beliefs. Whatever you believe, this book will force you to think about those beliefs.The novel 1984 cannot hold a candle to the terrifying, and even more realistic near future painted in Unborn. Abortion ethicists have advocated on a non-fictional basis everything portrayed in this book. It is only a matter of time before the Unborn future becomes a reality. For far too many children, it has already become a reality. A reality that ended for them with their deaths.The modern abolitionist seeks to abolish the slaughter of babies, just as the 19th century abolitionist sought to abolish the evil institution of slavery. However, born out of the eugenics movement that sought to exterminate the black man since he could no longer be enslaved, the modern abortion movement is an evil institution far surpassing the evils of slavery.In the 19th century, Uncle Tom's Cabin opened the eyes of America to the need for the abolition of slavery and in the 21st century, Unborn will open the eyes of America to the need for the abolition of abortion.This book is the modern abolitionist's Uncle Tom's Cabin.Warning! This book is not intended for younger children. The book portrays fictionally a graphic and disturbing utopian future where abortion rights are absolute. Intended for teenagers, who are forced to confront today these horrible issues by a world gone mad, the graphic and disturbing nature of the logic of modern man is taken to it's inevitable conclusions.Parental Discretion Advised. Parents should read this book before allowing their children to read it.
Download or read book Ourselves Unborn written by Sara Dubow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that the meanings people attribute to the fetus are not based simply on biological fact or theological truth, but are in fact strongly influenced by competing definitions of personhood and identity, beliefs about knowledge and authority, and assumptions about gender roles and sexuality. In addition, these meanings can be shaped by dramatic historical change: over the course of the twentieth century, medical and technological changes made fetal development more comprehensible, while political and social changes made the fetus a subject of public controversy. Moreover, since the late nineteenth century, questions about how fetal life develops and should be valued have frequently intersected with debates about the authority of science and religion, and the relationship between the individual and society. In examining the contested history of fetal meanings, Sara Dubow brings a fresh perspective to these vital debates.
Download or read book Stories of the Unborn Soul written by Elisabeth Hallett and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-04-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking voyage to the frontiers of life! True stories from parents and others reveal an awe-inspiring phenomenon. Children-to-be reach out to their future parents in many ways, even giving help and guidance on the journey to birth. These illuminating stories of contact before birth-and before conception-cast a new light on everything from parenthood, soul agreements, and life planning, to the unsuspected role of grandparents in the soul world. Including accounts from people who actually remember their pre-birth existence, this book may change the way you look at yourself, your family, and life itself.
Download or read book Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations written by Laura Westra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive coverage of the arguments over international legal instruments, key legal cases and examples including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, industrial disasters, clean water provision, diet, HIV/AIDS, environmental racism and climate change. Also covered are international agreements and objectives as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol, the Millennium Development Goals and international trade. The result is the most controversial and thorough examination to date of the subject and the enormous ramifications and challenges it poses to every aspect of international and domestic environmental, human rights, trade and public health law and policy.
Download or read book Future Home of the Living God written by Louise Erdrich and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency, self-determination, biology, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time.
Download or read book Bond with Your Baby Before Birth written by Kim O'Neill and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional channel, author, and mother of two, gives pregnant women the tools they need to bond with their baby as much as possible before he or she physically gets here.
Download or read book Origins written by Annie Murphy Paul and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul presents an in-depth examination of how personalities are formed by biological, social, and emotional factors.
Download or read book The Dream Daughter written by Diane Chamberlain and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a thrilling, mind-bending novel about one mother's journey to save her child. When Carly Sears, a young woman widowed by the Vietnam war, receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970, and she is told that nothing can be done to help her child. But her brother-in-law, a physicist with a mysterious past, tells her that perhaps there is a way to save her baby. What he suggests is something that will shatter every preconceived notion that Carly has. Something that will require a kind of strength and courage she never knew existed. Something that will mean an unimaginable leap of faith on Carly's part. And all for the love of her unborn child. The Dream Daughter is a rich, genre-spanning, breathtaking novel about one mother's quest to save her child, unite her family, and believe in the unbelievable. Diane Chamberlain pushes the boundaries of faith and science to deliver a novel that you will never forget. Praise for The Dream Daughter: "Chamberlain writes with supernatural gifts...fate, destiny, chance and hope combine for a heady and breathless wonder of a read." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale "Can a story be both mind-bending and heartfelt? In Diane Chamberlain’s hands, it can. The Dream Daughter will hold readers in anxious suspense until the last satisfying page." —Therese Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z
Download or read book Rules for My Unborn Son written by Walker Lamond and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RULES FOR MY UNBORN SON is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial ("If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist") to the practical ("Keep a copy of your letters. It makes it easier for your biographer") to even a couple of sure-fire hangover cures ("There is no better remedy than a dip in the ocean"), the book of rules and accompanying quotations is quite simply an instruction manual for becoming a Good Man - industrious, thoughtful, charming, and of course, well-dressed. Hip and witty with a decidedly traditionalist flavor, RULES FOR MY UNBORN SON is meant to evoke simpler times when Father knew best and a suitable answer to "Why?" was "Because I said so."
Download or read book Parenting Begins Before Conception written by Carista Luminare-Rosen and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prospective parents learn how they can lay the foundations for a healthy, happy family life even before their children are conceived. This guide shows parents how they can optimize children's physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Illustrations.
Download or read book The Ministry for the Future written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox) The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. "One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books "If there’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker "[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It’s my book of the year." —Locus "Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
Download or read book Is the Fetus a Person written by Jean Reith Schroedel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much a model for future research as a study of the status of the fetus, this book offers an examination of one of the most divisive and complex issues of American life."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Forever King written by Diana Sims and published by Forever King. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Sims takes you on a journey of losing her unborn son via stillbirth. She shows you that you can continue to live, press through the pain into your destiny. Using the hurt to heal others through your tragedy and know there is a promise that will wipe every tear cried from your eyes. Live!
