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  1. logical fallacy
    an error in reasoning that undermines an argument
    Another logical fallacy: Doctor A is unethical therefore all doctors must be??
  2. gestational
    of or relating to gestation
    The serious argument about abortion, concerning which decent people differ, is about the moral significance and proper legal status of fetal life at various stages of the gestational continuum.
  3. tonsillectomy
    surgical removal of the palatine tonsils
    Your defense of doctors as moral and ethical seems strange when the President of the United States accuses them of performing unneeded tonsillectomies and needlessly cutting off limbs because they are greedy.
  4. immodestly
    without modesty; in an immodest manner
    The court, having flaunted its faux modesty by refusing to say what every high-school biology student knows—when life begins—then immodestly dismissed a deep philosophic mystery by decreeing when “meaningful” life begins.
  5. colloquy
    formal conversation
    C-Span recorded her words in the Oct. 20, 1999, Senate colloquy that can be seen today on YouTube.
  6. infanticide
    murdering an infant
    Two issues ago, this column said, “It is theoretically impossible to fashion an abortion position significantly more extreme than Boxer’s, which is slightly modified infanticide.”
  7. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
    Readers can decide which is the more candid denotation of this: The baby is about 80 percent delivered, feet first, until a portion of the skull is exposed.
  8. unneeded
    not necessary
    Your defense of doctors as moral and ethical seems strange when the President of the United States accuses them of performing unneeded tonsillectomies and needlessly cutting off limbs because they are greedy.
  9. continuum
    an extent in which no part is distinct from adjacent parts
    The serious argument about abortion, concerning which decent people differ, is about the moral significance and proper legal status of fetal life at various stages of the gestational continuum.
  10. gaggle
    a flock of geese
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  11. vitiate
    make imperfect
    But the “health” exception is widely recognized as a loophole designed to, and large enough to, vitiate any law banning the procedure: An abortion-providing doctor can say that a mother’s mental health is threatened by depression or anxiety about being denied an abortion, however late in the third trimester of gestation.
  12. faux
    not genuine or real
    The court, having flaunted its faux modesty by refusing to say what every high-school biology student knows—when life begins—then immodestly dismissed a deep philosophic mystery by decreeing when “meaningful” life begins.
  13. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
    The argument is fallacious.
  14. masthead
    a staff list printed in a newspaper or magazine
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    Al Gore Avoids Sexual Misconduct Charges
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  15. needlessly
    without need
    Your defense of doctors as moral and ethical seems strange when the President of the United States accuses them of performing unneeded tonsillectomies and needlessly cutting off limbs because they are greedy.
  16. stark
    severely simple
    In it the court was squeamish about a stark fact: Abortion kills.
  17. aide
    someone who acts as an assistant
    As Ronald Reagan prepared for his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter in October 1980, some Reagan aides pondered how their candidate should respond if Carter unearthed some of the at-times-too-colorful things Reagan had said over the years.
  18. columnist
    a journalist who writes editorials
    In a letter in last week’s NEWSWEEK, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that, in the previous issue, this columnist got her position on late-term abortion “wrong” by “taking my words out of context.”
  19. brood
    hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
    The elephant is that you either have full citizens who have constitutional protections, or you have a brood mare, whose only value is in reproducing.
  20. decree
    a legally binding command or decision
    The court, having flaunted its faux modesty by refusing to say what every high-school biology student knows—when life begins—then immodestly dismissed a deep philosophic mystery by decreeing when “meaningful” life begins.
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